Angelica Falkeling
40x40х10 cm, paper, cotton, synthetic furr, metal, chains, plastic, wood, led-light, batteries, handmade wall paper
My box is a showcase of my research around cotton production (and its colonial history) in Uzbekistan and beyond through a drawing, a screen-printed wallpaper and a found recycled fabric. The drawing depicts False Cotton Stainers and Pink Billworms (Aulacosternum Nigrorubrum and Pectinophra Gossypiella). They are common insects to invade cotton plants. The wallpaper depict Sea-Fire motions dedicated to the Aral Sea, and the fabric depict exotic fantasy flowers breathing past and current perceptions of geography.
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Angelica Falkeling (born in 1988 in Degerfors, Sweden) is an artist and seamstress working across collage, drawing, performance, music, sculpture, textiles and video. Working with hobby materials, textile crafts and D-I-Y solutions in the scale of the domestic do they pay attention to textural play and logistic chaos. They have a theoretical foundation in de-colonial, queer, and feminist future-making. In a broad sense, their research focuses on tacit knowledge, generational trauma, seasonal thinking, storytelling, and garment history. They often collaborate with others and host events in communal spaces, approaching fiber arts as a decorative, material and relational practice. Several of their works pay close attention to the textile industry's violent, social, and political history in the way they browse textile craft and seek cross-generational dialogues in works such as Pass This On, Chew The Rag, and What We Are Made Of.
Their work has been exhibited and performed at Textielmuseum Tilburg, Het Nieuwe Instituut, CCA Glasgow, CAC Brétigny, SIGNAL – Center for Contemporary Art Malmö, Rib Rotterdam, Temporary Gallery and Tensta Konsthall. They have been a resident at 18th Street Art Center, Cripta 747. They graduated with a Master of Fine art from the Piet Zwart Institute (2017) and a Bachelor of Fine Art from Malmö Art Academy and the International Academy of Art Palestine (2014).
Website : angelicafalkeling.com
Their work has been exhibited and performed at Textielmuseum Tilburg, Het Nieuwe Instituut, CCA Glasgow, CAC Brétigny, SIGNAL – Center for Contemporary Art Malmö, Rib Rotterdam, Temporary Gallery and Tensta Konsthall. They have been a resident at 18th Street Art Center, Cripta 747. They graduated with a Master of Fine art from the Piet Zwart Institute (2017) and a Bachelor of Fine Art from Malmö Art Academy and the International Academy of Art Palestine (2014).
Website : angelicafalkeling.com