KARIN AURORA LINDELL

I work conceptually, focusing on and problematising different aspects of today’s textile industry – for instance the flagging out the West’s textile production to the East, globalisation, human dignity, consumer power and environmental and health-related issues. Labour is far too cheap in the dirty textile industry. At the same time, I want to make visible women’s textile traditions and women’s culture in general and to see them in the international and global perspective that is strongly rooted in my works. Underlying the legacy of women’s textile traditions are centuries of knowledge, insight, toil and care. Textiles are an anonymous but important part of women’s history.

Karin Aurora Lindell (b. 1955 in Husqvarna, Sweden) lives and works in Trondheim. She is trained as a tailor and has had her own workshop since 1978. One of her most important materials is cotton canvas. Originally, she worked with textile printing techniques and clothing, but in recent years she has transitioned to larger formats. In the past 35 years, she has participated in a number of collective and separate exhibitions in Norway and abroad and has received several scholarships. Lindell’s last solo exhibition, Teppefall, was at Kunsthall Trondheim, in connection with the Hannah Ryggen Triennial in April 2022.