Skin Stories
Skin Stories incorporates fragments from prints of my previous artist’s books, realized in mixed media on linen and paper. Made into small, intimate booklets, combining prints, paper, and linen or canvas.
These works form a dialogue between materiality and narrative, focusing on a tactile, experimental engagement with the original work.
Artist and musician Dror Feiler used the big canvases as score fort a short performance on the opening evening of the exhibition.
“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
Exhibited at the exhibition Peeling Off The Skin, Like Paper at Gallery Tegen2, Stockholm 2016