Iterate rupture

Ongoing project that revolves around the artist's interest in Hallandssöm, an embroidery tradition that has been in her family for a few generations and is specific to the county Halland, in Sweden. This project is a way for Christensson to communicate and to know her grandmothers, who she never got to meet. She follows the traces they left behind, in and through their embroideries.

The project engages in the Hallandssöm's history and tradition as a female craft, and centers around the pattern, the red thread and memories, with a background in the feminist discourse. Christensson's interest lies in the control of the textile craft method; she sees control as something that excludes, censors and limits possible expression within crafts, and how it can be compared to, not just the female body but how everyone is held back by society's expectations.

Installation views and details from the shows Iterate Rupture, at Galleri Blunk, Trondheim, and GalleriNeuf, Oslo, Norway, 2016.

Mixed media (Linen fabric, specific Hallandssöm thread, iron square metal, epoxy, latex and wool yarn). Dimensions variable.