LOUD VOLUMES SOFT STUFF

SOFIA HAGSTRÖM MØLLER & MARIANNE FAIRBANKS

JUNE 1 - JULY 4, 2021

OFFICINET: Bredgade 66, 1260 Copenhagen, Denmark dcod.kdk

Loud Volumes Soft Stuff features work by Sofia Hagström Møller and Marianne Fairbanks that explores and interrogates woven cloth. Through expanded structures, new materials and dimensional investigations, Hagström Møller and Fairbanks present works that boldly activate the eye and more subtly focuses on the entanglements of woven cloth and its meanings, both personal and political. Traditional, digital and unconventional weavings will be presented, colliding handweaving with digital technology and largely experimental forms. Hagström Møller and Fairbanks virtually collaborated over the six months and brought their works together for the first time in the exhibition at Officinet.

ADDITIONAL EVENTS:

Gallery Talk: Listening Party: Sunday, June 6, 2021 Saturday, June 12, 2021 sofiahagstrommoller.com mariannefairbanks.com charlottejul.com

Sofia Hagström Møller (Sweden) holds a Masters in Textile Design from KADK. She is an artist and freelance designer who develops textiles using both analog and computer-controlled looms. She crafts woven artworks for public space and exhibition for international venues including—Compound Yellow, USA, Lynn Mecklenburg Textile Gallery, USA, Spring exhibition, Kunsthal Charlottenborg Copenhagen, and Vetlanda Museum, Sweden.

Sofia Hagström Møller’s work employs Scandinavian weaving traditions and manipulates the cloth into forms using modern materials and experimental techniques. Each piece delves into the historical origins of the woven structure finding personal connections in the patterns and bindings. She tells woven stories that play with colors, light and materials. Presenting weave design traditions in new ways, through the use of the latest technological developments, yet always with reference to the old analog hand-crafts.

Marianne Fairbanks (USA) is an associate professor in the Design Studies department at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her BFA from the University of Michigan. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally in venues including Copenhagen Contemporary, Denmark, The Roshka Museum of Craft and Design, Gothenburg, Sweden, The Museum of Art and Design, NY, and The Smart Museum of Art, Chicago.

Marianne Fairbanks’s work explodes and makes bold the patterns and systems that are the basis of weaving, playing formally with perception, depth and volume. This body of work began with an investigation into historic American overshot weaving patterns found in books. After photographing and printing these patterns, Fairbanks then manipulates the pages by hand exploring the effects of physical interventions and dimensional shifts. The new images are then brought into the computer where they are further edited before being hand woven on the TC2 digital jacquard loom. There is an inherent complexity that lies at the heart of woven cloth and Fairbanks work to exploit this system to visually play with our understanding of dimension and volume.

Charlotte Jul (Denmark) is a curator, writer, counselor and editor with 20 years of experience in the business helping artists, leading design brands and key design institutions communicate their potential. She has also worked as an interior stylist for several years besides creating editorial content for various medias and platforms, both analogue and digital.

Photographer: Martin Yam Møller

Front cover design: Marianne Fairbanks

Catalog design: Erica Hess