Opening Reception
28 May 2026, 17:00–20:00
Feeling Matter delves into cycles of transition through the disciplines of textiles, ceramics, and jewelry. Here the material speaks through its own transformation, as objects are reworked and reinvented the matter changes in form yet the original meaning and memories remain. The artists work with living bodies of water, scoby, dust, blood, family heirlooms, discarded furniture, and garments. Dust becomes textile, blood becomes glaze, furniture becomes jewelry, and wardrobes and quilts are deconstructed. In some cases, transformation is not only a process behind the work, but becomes the work itself.
Material is used to work through understanding personal cycles of transformation. These works preserve and mend, giving a body to what remains unseen. Jewelry mends internal struggles, textiles create a non-existing place, and weaves give form to unarticulated feelings. Ceramic sculpture reflects on disappearing nature; tapestry woven around stoneware questions violence.
Feeling Matter asks how emotion can take physical form. While, at the same time,showcases an international group working in varying mediums we come together through our interest in questions of impermanence.
We would be delighted to welcome you to the opening and hope to see you there.
Kind regards,
MA1 Craft at HDK Valand: Alex Rosa, Alexia Brandel, Athanasia Dekouli, Dain Lee, Doruk Senelmis, Hanna Sundbom, Ki Radcliffe, Laura Calderón Gómez, Nina Kraul Maegaard, Rebecka Malmberg, Rita Silva Carreira, Ruth Cassidy, Sanne Höglund, Thanasis Mylonas