Petra Hultman

embroidery under conversation

I'm interested in the form of the sewing circle. I believe this form of meeting, crafting together during an ongoing conversation opens up for a different kind of dialogue. An other kind of precence, with a silence which is not as treathening as otherwise. I've experimented with this together with students from Tullinge upper high school at Botkyrka artcentre. The students were asked to go through life-style magazines in the search for imperatives. Theese commands was then transformed into artistic material in the form of embroidery, performance, installation and others.