Serena Holm
Jeweller
Published: 13.09.2020
Serena Holm
Bio
Serena Holm is a swedish jeweller with a background in Art History and graduated from Göteborg University. The artist is represented by the Röhsska museum and received diverse grants, attesting the quality of her work. Serena Holm also marked her presence in international exhibitions, showing a body of work that seeks out the strange and the unfamiliar to present a new clarity in the end.Statement
The necklace Nyonye-Ngana is a chain of fortune. It is made out of a collection of talismans from a different part of the world. When facing complex problems, humankind has often put its belief into magic rituals. Nyonye-Ngana is the creator of ants and son of Bumba, the creator god in the religion and mythology of the Kuba of Central Africa. After creating the ants Nyonye-Ngana died. To honor him, the ants went deep in the earth for dark soil to bury him and transformed the barren sands at the earth's surface. Ant colonies are described as superorganisms because the ants appear to operate as a unified entity, collectively working together to support the colony. Ant societies have a division of labour, communication between individuals, and an ability to solve complex problems. To survive further millions of years we have also to collaborate across the countries in order to keep our soil fertile and our air breathable./ Serena Holm
My self-deception is that I create in order to understand and that the final end of it all might be wisdom.
This means that I deliberately seek out the strange, the unfamiliar, even the unknowable, as subjects for my novels and trust my imagination to illuminate them to the point where both I and the reader can see them with a new clarity. The writers I admire most seem to have this kind of goal: to comprehend experience distant from their own, in nature, place and time, and to let the extraordinary cast new light on the quotidian.
/ Rose Tremain
Serena Holm
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Jeremy Isamu Irvin
Ellensburg, United States -
Rafika Weiss
Heidenau, Germany -
Manfred Bischoff
Schömberg, Germany -
Otto Künzli
Munich, Germany -
Lydia Hirte
Dresden, Germany -
Onno Boekhoudt
De Hoeve, Netherlands -
Ivan Barnett
Albuquerque, United States -
Catarina Silva
Lisbon, Portugal -
Philipp Spillmann
Oslo, Norway -
Yong Joo Kim
Chicago, United States -
Akis Goumas
Athens, Greece -
Oles Tsura
Idar Oberstein, Germany -
Empar Juanes Sanchis
Alfarb, Spain -
Joani Groenewald
Stellenbosch, South Africa -
Clodagh Molloy
Dublin, Ireland