Annie Johansson for HRW

/ Nominated by Cooper & Gorfer 

Annie Johansson

- In what way does your chosen piece for HRW reflect 2020?

"Fjellet Får De Aldri” (”They will Never Get the Mountain”) is a woven portrait of the mountain Engebøfjellet; a mountain that is the center of an environmentally controversial mining-project in Norway that has been alive since many years; a conflict that is still ongoing today in 2020. I came by the title in an image taken from newspaper clippings I found during my research, where a little boy is holding a demonstration placard stating those words in the small village Vevring where this mountain is situated.

BIO

Annie Johansson grew up in a small village in the woods and likes to disappear into the slow making of textiles. A material and craft that interests her based on its deep-rooted relationship to body and corporeality. In her work, she often draws inspiration from topics such as private and public desire, the phenomenology of the body, new materialism, mysticism and our relationship to nature. With the language of textiles, Annie creates sculptures through which she explores the physical relationship that our bodies negotiate with objects, spaces and materials, more recently our sensual and sometimes sexual relations to textile objects. In her installations, she often wants to recognize our bodily understanding, over the cerebral, when encountering her work.

Annie Johansson was nominted to 20 21 Artists for Human Rights Watch by Cooper and Gorfer.

anniejohansson.com/ Instagram: @anniejohansson_art

This artwork is located in Gothenburg, Sweden. WILLAS contemporary will facilitate artwork release within 14 days after payment. Can be picked up by the buyer, or shipped at the buyer´s expense.