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Printed Positions - Exploring contemporary Nordic textile patterns
Since the turn of the millennium, pattern design has undergone a technical and aesthetic revolution, to a great extent spurred on by the development of digital technology. In Printed Positions, contemporary textile-pattern design is explored through works by 14 Nordic designers and artists.
Curated by Martin Bergström and Andrea Hasselrot, Printed Positions looks at how the field of textile patterns has been revolutionised from the ground up over the past 25 years, with changes to design methods, production techniques, and attitudes to patterns.
Patterns are present in nature, in our homes and on our bodies. They are ubiquitous in all kinds of design, not least in the textile field. But what constitutes a pattern today when digital technology has upended traditional ideas of repetition and printing techniques?
– The patterns of today are a maze of bold expressions, new artistic structures, and aesthetics that influence and reflect their time. Patterns are positioned in relation to the technological revolution or as an antipole where analogue techniques and expressions thrive, Martin Bergström says.
The exhibition takes us on a journey through the multidisciplinary patterns of today, where distinctions between interior design and fashion, ugliness and beauty, digital and analogue, and abstract and concrete are becoming increasingly blurred. This is an age that in one moment takes inspiration from nature and the next works with abstraction, moving between the future and the past, the playfully humorous and the graphically strict.
– Interest in textile-pattern design is on the increase, and it is high time to highlight modern textile-pattern design at the Textile Museum of Sweden. The digital revolution has resulted in the range of patterns and colours becoming wider, and digital printing is often more sustainable than older types of printing, Museum Director Ulrika Kullenberg says.
The participating exhibitors are:
Daniel Palillo
Edda Gimnes
Henrik Vibskov
Ingrid Berg
Klaus Haapaniemi
Liselotte Watkins
Lovisa Burfitt
Margrethe Odgaard
Martin Bergström
Patrik Söderstam
Reeta Ek
Thóra Stefánsdóttir
Tronhjem Rømer
Tuuli-Tytti Koivula
Mönstrade Positioner is curated by Martin Bergström and Andrea Hasselrot. Production by Andrea Hasselrot and Skarp Projects in collaboration with the Textile Museum of Sweden. In connection with the exhibition, Studio Bon designs a catalogue that presents all of the exhibitors, featuring in-depth discussions of the topic with contributions from professors, researchers, designers, and design critics from all of the Nordic countries.
The exhibition is open: October 14, 2023 – August 25, 2024 at Textilmuseet / The Textile Museum of Sweden.
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Textilmuseet är ett av Nordens ledande museer inom textil och mode med samlingar av kläder, tyger, textilmaskiner m.m. Basutställningen Textil Kraft berättar om textil produktion, medan tillfälliga utställningar varierar från mode, design, konst och hantverk till teknik, forskning, hållbarhet och smarta textilier. Textilmuseet är placerat i Textile Fashion Center - ett centrum för utbildning, forskning, entreprenörskap och upplevelser inom textil och mode i Sveriges textila huvudstad Borås.
