Johanna Törnqvist
Jeweller
Published: 30.10.2017
hotmail.comNecklace: Side Effects, 2017
Recycled blister packs.
Photo by: Tomas Björkdal
Part of: The European Triennial for Contemporary Jewellery 2017
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Necklace: Side Effects, 2017
Recycled blister packs.
Photo by: Tomas Björkdal
Part of: The European Triennial for Contemporary Jewellery 2017
Close up
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Necklace: Side Effects, 2017
Recycled blister packs.
Photo by: Tomas Björkdal
Part of: The European Triennial for Contemporary Jewellery 2017
In scene
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Photograph: Project Precious Trash, 2016
Photo of Trash.
Photo by: Fredrik Sederholm
Project Precious Trash is a project about clothes and consumption that raises questions about how we value today´s material and look upon our assets.
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Photograph: Project Precious Trash, 2016
Recycled material: Crisp Bags.
Photo by: Fredrik Sederholm
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Photograph: Project Precious Trash, 2016
Photo of Trash.
Photo by: Fredrik Sederholm
Project Precious Trash is a project about clothes and consumption that raises questions about how we value today´s material and look upon our assets.
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Photograph: Project Precious Trash, 2016
Recycled material: T-shirts.
Photo by: Fredrik Sederholm
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Photograph: Project Precious Trash, 2016
Photo of Trash.
Photo by: Fredrik Sederholm
Project Precious Trash is a project about clothes and consumption that raises questions about how we value today´s material and look upon our assets.
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Photograph: Project Precious Trash, 2016
Recycled material: Meshbags for fruit.
Photo by: Fredrik Sederholm
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Johanna TörnqvistNecklace: Vingklippt, 2014
Recycled material
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Johanna TörnqvistNecklace: Vingklippt, 2014
Recycled material
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Johanna TörnqvistNecklace: Vingklippt, 2014
Recycled material
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Johanna TörnqvistDress: Precious Trash, 2013
Recycled material
Precious trash is made out of recycled material, based on one family consumption of coffe and pasta for 2 months. Trash has been processed and refined to become precious material. With this dress you will shine and at the same time make a statement about your daily consumption of plastic.
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Johanna TörnqvistDress: Precious Trash, 2013
Recycled material
Precious trash is made out of recycled material, based on one family consumption of coffe and pasta for 2 months. Trash has been processed and refined to become precious material. With this dress you will shine and at the same time make a statement about your daily consumption of plastic.
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Johanna TörnqvistDress: Precious Trash, 2013
Recycled material
Precious trash is made out of recycled material, based on one family consumption of coffe and pasta for 2 months. Trash has been processed and refined to become precious material. With this dress you will shine and at the same time make a statement about your daily consumption of plastic.
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Johanna TörnqvistDress: Precious Trash, 2013
Recycled material
Precious trash is made out of recycled material, based on one family consumption of coffe and pasta for 2 months. Trash has been processed and refined to become precious material. With this dress you will shine and at the same time make a statement about your daily consumption of plastic.
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Johanna TörnqvistDress: Precious Trash, 2013
Recycled material
Precious trash is made out of recycled material, based on one family consumption of coffe and pasta for 2 months. Trash has been processed and refined to become precious material. With this dress you will shine and at the same time make a statement about your daily consumption of plastic.
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Johanna TörnqvistNecklace: Celestial twin, 2012
Textile, recycled plastic, crochet
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Johanna TörnqvistNecklace: Celestial twin, 2012
Textile, recycled plastic, crochet
Detail
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Johanna TörnqvistPiece: Doux péché, 2010
Textile, recycled plastic, crochet
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Johanna TörnqvistPiece: Doux péché, 2010
Textile, recycled plastic, crochet
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Johanna TörnqvistPiece: Too hot to hold a pot, 2010
Crochet, cotton, raffia
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Johanna TörnqvistNecklace: En skönhet klär i allt, 2009
Textile, recycled plastic
Necklace and cuffs
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Necklace: En skönhet klär i allt, 2009
Textile, recycled plastic
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Johanna TörnqvistNecklace: En skönhet klär i allt, 2009
Textile, recycled plastic
Necklace and cuffs
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Johanna TörnqvistNecklace: Le cerclage de noce, 2008
Textile
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Johanna Törnqvist graduated from Studio Bercot in Paris in 1990 and is also educated in New York, Japan and Sockholm and has been working with fashion, textile handicraft and ceramics, as well as education.
Statement
With one foot rooted in craft and folk art and the other firmly in the criticism of consumption, Johanna Törnqvist assembles traditional and contemporary expressions, but also raises questions about how we value today´s materials. In the borderland between art, craft and fashion, she flirts with the traditions and finds in her work the specks of gold in the trash and superfluous materials. With her craft skills, she transforms trash into something refined and beautiful which does not leave the viewer unaffected.In her latest project, Project Precious Trash, she takes a step that enables her to take part in the contemporary debate about what we consume and how we look upon our assets. Even though crafts have traditionally been based on an original material: wool, clay and wood, there is something else today that our contemporaries have an inexhaustible supply of - trash. In an incisive way, she creates a provocative contrast between the transience of the trash and the durability of the craft.
/ Text by Frida Arnqvist Engström
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