Invitation to Exhibition

Katarzyna Zimna

Different shapes of voids

Ålgården Gallery, Ålgårdsvägen 33, Borås

12-27.10.2024

opening: 12.10.2024, from 12:00

The exhibition consists of a set of works created in Borås or inspired by this stay: graphics made with the relief printing techniques (linocut, monotype, collagraph/ artist’s own technique – matrices made of grains and salt) and works using hemp-based nonwovens and composites, which were the subject of research conducted within the framework of SustDesignTex Project, at the University of Borås, Swedish School of Textiles, in 2023. The narrative layer refers to the relationship between man and nature, and it was inspired by winter and early spring views of lakes Öresjö and Byttorpssjön, as well as visits to the Kypegården sauna, which became the impulse to create a series of graphic works Sauna, constituting a catalyst for reflection on the corporeal, feminine experience of change, transformation and the circularity of life.

Katarzyna Zimna is an artist and researcher living and working in Lodz, Poland. Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Lodz in 2002. PhD from the School of Art and Design, Loughborough University, UK in 2010. Habilitation in Fine Arts in 2019. Author of Time to Play. Action and Interaction in Contemporary Art (I.B. Tauris, 2014/ Bloomsbury 2020). Associate Professor at the Institute of Architecture of Textiles at the Lodz University of Technology. In her practice she explores the expanded field of printmaking medium, including object, textile and relational projects. Some inspirations come from innovative materials that she works with at the Lodz University of Technology. Ecology, permaculture, feminism and the new materialism are the main conceptual strands of her art. 

www.kasiazimna.net

Acknowledgements

The research project and the organisation costs of the exhibition were largely covered by:

HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ACCESS-03/Twinning Project SustDesignTex (GA No. 101079009), title: “Sustainable Industrial Design of Textile Structures for Composites” funded by the European Union

Part of the project was carried at the Ålgården Printmaking Workshop and Gallery in Borås, Sweden thanks to the friendliness and generosity of the Association of Ålgården Artists.