Butterfly Effects by Johanna Törnqvist

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Johanna Törnqvist

In the exhibition Butterfly Effects, Johanna uses rubbish from the health care system; sockets, hoses, syringes, pills and more. By using this consumable, she puts her finger not only on how we value the material of our time, but also how we value the human being and its surroundings of our time.

Through fusing with wind and heat, she shapes the debris into various organic shapes that randomly shape into plants, flowers and insects that eventually develop into butterflies. The theme revolves around how a small wing on one side of the globe can create great turbulence on the other. We are all involved in the destruction or preservation of life on Earth.

A small flutter of a wing on one side of the globe can cause major turbulence on the other.
Everything is in motion and nothing stands still.
Every cause has its effect. And every effect has its affect.
In a constant flow and in flux with the events of time.
In BUTTERFLY EFFECTS, chaos lives next door to the divine.

See the exhibition in Kisa Exhibition Hall, Torggatan 2.

The exhibition is shown 13/9-14/10 and the opening hours follow the library’s opening hours.