Skin Stories
A reworked version of Ödledansen on canvas incorporates fragments from prints of the artist book, realized in mixed media on linen and paper. Further explorations transform fragments and extracts from the artist book into small, intimate booklets, combining prints, paper, and linen or canvas. These works create layered textures and a dialogue between materiality and narrative, offering a tactile, experimental engagement with the original work.
Together, these pieces form a constellation of images, text, and material, highlighting the artist’s ongoing process of reworking, fragmenting, and reassembling her visual language.
“Ida Thunströms new works take departure in the skin as psychological metaphor. As a fragile border between identity and the world outside – a memorymap, imprints and traces left by time, in layer upon layer, where also the common: shaky now, and all the layers of the past are made visible, in holes, rips and cracks. A wounded exposion that might be all about conquer the fear to loose control over the borders: the self, identity, order – as well as the nations- borders. A collective experience deeply rooted in the human psyche.” Gunilla Sköld-Feiler, artist and gallerist
Skin Stories came as a part of the Exhibition “Peeling Off The Skin, Like Paper” at Galleri Tegen2, Stockholm Sweden 2016.
Artist and musician Dror Feiler used the big canvases as score fort a short performance on the opening evening of the exhibition.
