source: artdaily

Frida Fjellman (Sweden) uses glass and ceramics as well as wood, plastics and synthetic furs. She creates fairy tales with her installations of giant rabbits and exploding volcanoes. Wide-eyed animals peer sheepishly around scenes of horrific industrial civilization to play with the relationship between nature and culture, humans and animals. The Swedish art historian, Sara Danius says about Fjellman’s work: “Considering a scene by Fjellman is like listening to a story that is as bizarre as it is charming and that takes place in a borderland between dream and reality, sleeping and waking.”
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source: earth-of-fire

” My job is to create atmospheres, small worlds combining elements of interior decoration usually present in our homes and animals inspired by the Swedish tradition. They evoke strong symbols , she says . People often project their feelings … my recent works reflect my attraction for treated and refined objects … a nice luxury , filled with tenderness . ”

Difficult to classify , this artistic design is called “Contemporary Nordic Craft” . To understand this term , do not translate literally craft by trade, in reference to a multitude of skills and many types of objects … in Swedish, different terms are used: Konsthantverk , which means work that aspires to be like the art, and also Hantverk , which refers to a craft hobby. In 2007, a new name has emerged: Formhantverk or ” sub an artisanal form.” The term was coined to refer to ” activities that are on the border between craft and design and dialogue between these disciplines , with an emphasis on communication and discussion of issues.”