During her residency in the Refuge Pavilion, Josefin Tingvall is working on the first major sketches for the project “Let’s pick blueberries until the end of capitalism”, planned for completion in 2027. She explores how the texture layers of 3D graphics can coexist with tapestry weaving, combining game graphics with textile techniques as a way of approaching virtual spaces, dreaming, and consumption. Her work on site focuses on material tests and sketches for the upcoming tapestry series, inspired by the forests surrounding Rejmyre. The images here show early experiments where the digital and the handwoven begin to take shape together.
During her time in the Refuge Pavilion, Josefin will hold open studio sessions for visitors on August 6–9, August 19–22, and September 3–6.
Read more about the presentation of Josefin’s project on September 6 here!
Josefin Tingvall (b. 1993, Arvika) is a textile artist with an MFA in Textile Art from Konstfack University of Art, Craft and Design and an MFA in Fine Art from HDK-Valand. Her practice is project-based and grounded in a poetic and material exploration of the dynamics, manipulation, and boundaries of materials. Tingvall works across techniques such as weaving, embroidery, experimental dyeing, and visual coding, often developing, merging, and re-contextualizing craft as a navigator and exploratory tool in her projects. She explores themes of environment, fragility, and change, and the human role in a more-than-human world through contemporary textiles. A recurring theme is the landscape and the re-imagined place, a metaphor for constant transformation, and of craft as acts and intertwinings between different wills and presences.
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