Elin Flognman
Jeweller
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Published: 06.11.2024
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Bio
I am an art jewellery maker, with my studio in Trollhättan, Sweden. I earned my masters degree in art jewellery at the School of Craft and Design in Gothenburg (HDK).Statement
In Sweden craft is taught in primary school. Usually, the very first thing you make is a wooden butter knife. I use this as a starting point in my work thinking about what it does to me, being able to make a butter knife. Carving into the core of the shapes and the movements of my hands are in my work and my everyday life.I twist and turn everyday objects. Through mind hand collaboration I wish to emphasize the magic in the mundane. Every day and the ordinary are parts of life often put in the shadow of parties and extravaganza.
Potato is a great part of my work. Potato as a culture crop shares a human history and can through this illustrate many of our endeavors. As an example in our future plans on the colonization of other planets, one of the first questions to arise is Can we grow potatoes?
I have a manifesto on material use, where I declare my materials to be the ones surrounding me. I try not to buy any materials but to have them given to me, harvested, or found. For inspiration, I walk.
Elin Flognman celebrates the humble potato in Everyday Matter, a surreal series featuring golden potatoes strung around the neck or clustered on the body as brooches - delightfully drawing attention to the politics of food, a celebration of the precious importance of this humble vegetable. / Kath Libbert, 2015
Il Giardino dei Potatis or Welcome to Löffelwald
I received an artist travel grant to go from Sweden, where I live, to Italy in 2020 and visit the sculpture garden created by artist Niki de Saint Phalles. The name of the garden is Giardino dei Tarocchi, the Tarot Garden, and consists of 22 gigantic sculptures showing the artist's interpretation of the mysteries of Tarot inspired by among other Antoni Gaudís Parc Güell in Barcelona and Palais Idéal in Hauterives, France by the postman Ferdinand Cheval.
There was no journey for me because of the pandemic of course. I then decided to make my own garden. A garden with wool potatoes, amber teeth, and brass spoons that is imagining the garden where I never went. This garden is mine. It can be anything I want it to be. Fearless. Beautiful. Grotesque. Fun.
During the pandemic, I studied my own family history and came to discover my grandmother's grandmother's father that lived in the province of Dalsland in a village called Åsnebyn (Donkey village) in the 1800s. Around 1880 a writer traveled the province looking for folklore storytellers. This was quite an in fashion at the time. The writer visited my ancestor and he wrote down 10 of his stories, one more fantastic than the other, in the book Historiegubbar på Dal (Storytellers in Dalsland). These stories have been inspirational seeds to my garden together with the description of him and his tiny cottage surrounded by woods and prickly gooseberry bushes.
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