GENDERFUCK, "Genderflag"
This is a detail picture of one rya rug, "Genderflag", that is part of my MA thesis. It is an artistic production with the title "Genderfuck" and it consists of textile art done with various techniques.
In my MA thesis I want to challenge the binary gender system and gender stereotypes and also give voice to non-binary genders. It is a celebration of gender diversity and equality.
Genderfuck, 2019-
Photo by Matilda Palmu
NIGHT FLOWERS
“I feel a bit guilty that a buy more and more flowers just to see them decaying. I start to take photos of the decaying flowers and I see so much beauty in the aging flowers - I want to capture the whole process of decaying.
My imagination starts to sparkle, what if I turn these decaying flowers into something new, what if the decaying was an inspiration for something beautiful and everlasting?”
“Night Flowers” is a mini collection of double-sided multipurpose interior textiles. The inspiration for this collection comes from decaying tulips and the collection gives a new life to flowers that are in the end of their life. The idea of the textiles are that they are not trying to copy the seen nor the drawn sketches but to transfer emotions and expressions with materials and colors and floral motifs drawn with structures.
The fabrics are soft and luxurious; weft material is fine merino wool. The collection consist of 4 different fabrics: 2 colorways and two surface patterns.
Night Flowers, 2018, Helsinki & Lapua
Coming exhibitions: Protoshop 2019
Photo by Matilda Palmu
AR/CT OF BALANSING
Everytime human beings touch the nature they distort the balance of it.Nature is, in fact, in its complexity and in its “chaos”, in constant balance. It's a fluid form of balance. Human beings have been poking that balance to the very point where nature can not restore it anymore.
In this project I wanted to expose natural materials to different treatments to distort their natural balance. I wanted to comment the paradox of modern way of living where everything is disposable and everlasting at the same time.
The act of balancing was set in motion but stopped to the point where the balance can be still restored. All the material samples are 100% toxic free and biodegradable.
This project was visually inspired by the Memphis group and their colorful work. The samples illustrates the act of balancing between the natural and the artificial.
AR/CT of balansing, 2018
Materials: leaves, flower pedals, diy bioplastics, grass
Exhibitions: Experimental Textile Design -exhibition, Piano Gallery, Otaniemi, 2018 (-2019)
Photo by Matilda Palmu
FLOWERED
Flowered is summer in wintertime. It is an art installation.
Flowered is metal chair covered with flowers. Sit on it and you travel back to summer in the middle of a flower field.
Flowers represent the beauty in life. All beauty is evanescent. The temporary existence is what makes life so beautiful.
Flowered, Helsinki, private residence, 2015
Materials: wire chair and real flowers
Dimensions: 830 x 420 x 410 mm
Photo by Matilda Palmu
TRANSITION
Transition is a collection of lightweight hanging sculptures that are made from plywood and textiles interwoven with different techniques to create interesting surfaces.
It’s a celebration of becoming oneself and breaking the chains of other’s expectations. It’s a joyful play of colors and materials celebrating femininity and acceptance.
It symbolizes my transition from something that I’m not into something that I am.
Transition, 2018, Helsinki
Materials: Birch plywood, wool yarn, cotton fabric
Exhibitions: Emoveo-exhibition during Helsinki Design Week 2018
Photo by Eeva Suorlahti
LEHDET
Lehdet is delicate and light wooden mobile and its shape was discovered by intuitively cutting and folding paper. The name Lehdet is a Finnish word that means leaves; the individual decorative pieces resemble leaves of a rowan tree.
Lehdet mobile got its inspiration from nature, old Finnish handicrafts and techniques such as bark weaving and whittled wood birds.
I used new materials and techniques for this mobile such as 0,4 mm thick birch plywood and a laser cutter to get the motif from which I created the individual "leaves" (lehdet = leaves).
Lehdet, Helsinki 2017
Materials: birch hardwood, birch plywood, metal chain and hooks
Exhibitions: Barewood -exhibition in Milan Design Week 2017, EcoDesign exhibition 2017, Habitare Furniture Fair Helsinki
Photo by Matilda Palmu
