Unexped connections of Lisa Björke
The Swedish artist Lisa Björke creates unexpected connections between everyday objects and elements of traditional craftsmanship – materials and techniques. In METALLOphone, she looks back to northern Sweden, to Helsingland, a region famous for its woodwork. Those wooden red Swedish barns, with their traditional wooden tables and beds, made logically, ergonomically, to make people feel better, and lovingly decorated in a lopsided way – we as Lithuanians know and recognise this, all we have to do is open the book of Lithuanian folk art by the chests and cupboards. And Lisa Björke turns freshly turned wood into jewellery, which in another context could perhaps become elements of a piece of furniture or a pattern. Not the kind that decorates, but the kind that speaks of place and tradition.
Artist says:
Hälsingland,
Surrounded by traditional craft, inherited knowledge and pride in materials, techniques, and idiom.
This reflects the beauty of a landscape, inspired by old buildings that is scattered around the landscape that is mostly covered in forests and meadows.
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