Swedish artist Barbara Ekström focuses on human perception in her art, exploring how and why the world appears and is understood differently by all. Her work employs alternative shapes and materials to explore objects of the industrial economy as art.
Ekström's piece in Amplify Action, entitled "Out of Order", is a 3D installation in which silk materials assume the form of traditional industrial objects that have since been replaced by more modern technologies. By employing silk as the medium, a material that suggests fragility and delicateness, the piece questions the future value and meaning of such objects when new technologies render them obsolete. But while the piece suggests the ephemeral nature and inevitable obsolescence of modern industrial technologies, the silk also communicates a sort of hopefulness for new life and growth, akin to the silk cocoon of a butterfly.
'Out of Order' will be featured in Amplify Action, opening April 21st.
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