Det som gör oss
What makes us
in wool, silk and leather
2025
What makes us is a textile work in several parts created specifically for Norberg's municipal centre. The title is intended to evoke the micro-stories that occur in everyday life but which can be of crucial importance. Someone loses their first milk tooth, someone else builds a hut in the forest. Some meet to dance while others meet in a study circle to learn to weave.The work can be seen as a kind of lexicon of everyday life, in which details from the municipal building can also be discerned. The tulip shape is taken from Maud Fredin Fredholm's original textiles from 1958, the space station ISS refers to Teddy Sempinski's mosaic on the gable where Sputnik sails over the village. Both red-listed and so-called invasive species are depicted in the work, which builds a kind of memory of our common present. Perhaps what is undesirable today will be something we long for in 20 years' time?The works are realised thanks to the work of many hands and the artist would like to thank Norberg Municipality and colleagues Helene Karlsson, Terese Molin, Katarina Elvén and Sandra Lundberg.
Art consultant
- Photos
- Katarina Elvén
- Katarina Elvén
Det som flyter genom världar
That which flows through worlds
2024
From the exhibition text at Köttinspektionen, written by Alba Folgado:
“A laundry has been evacuated after radioactive object from a Hospital was founded”So read the headlines of the news the day after an unidentified and suspicious object was found among sheets in one of Alingsås’ laundries. The apparently radioactive label that was attached to the object confused the emergency services and caused an unprecedented series of events.Åsa Dybwad Norman takes these surprising news as departure point for her exhibition at Köttinspektionen. She brings together textiles, embroideries and video-works to tell the story of a laundry. A story that mixes real and speculative tales in order to reflect about feminized work, labour struggles and the omnipresence of water in the production and use of textiles.
“A laundry has been evacuated after radioactive object from a Hospital was founded”So read the headlines of the news the day after an unidentified and suspicious object was found among sheets in one of Alingsås’ laundries. The apparently radioactive label that was attached to the object confused the emergency services and caused an unprecedented series of events.Åsa Dybwad Norman takes these surprising news as departure point for her exhibition at Köttinspektionen. She brings together textiles, embroideries and video-works to tell the story of a laundry. A story that mixes real and speculative tales in order to reflect about feminized work, labour struggles and the omnipresence of water in the production and use of textiles.
Curator
- Photos
- Alba Folgado & Helena Laukkanen
- Evelina Hedin
Himlakroppar
Celestial Bodies
2023
A four by two-meter curtain in wool with appliqués in mixed textile materials that was shown in Norberg, Fagersta and Skinnskatteberg during the summer/autumn of 2023. The work highlights female coded bodies and experiences, which exist and have existed in Norberg and the surrounding area. The project is part of ASK, Arbetsfält för samtida konst, which is run by Konstfrämjandet Västmanland, Region Västmanland and several municipalities in the region. All photos are from Tingshusparken in Norberg, where the curtain was first displayed.
Curator
- Assistant
- Photos
- Hilda Ekeroth
- Helene Karlsson
- Jenny Berntsson
Mjuka bevis och opålitliga vittnen
Soft evidence and unreliable wittnesses
textile patchworks
2022
“Åsa Dybwad Norman (b.1984) is a textile artist with an interest in social history and how it is written. Previously, she has, among other things, embroidered the coat from “Bockstensmannen” in tissue paper and immersed herself in the work of the medieval mystic Mechthild of Magdeburg through video works, embroidery, and spatial installations. Throughout, she follows the movement of textile materials through time, in search of subversive forces.
At Galleri 54, Åsa Norman exhibits garments and embroideries that relate to the textile as evidence and witness. Microscopic images of fibers from textiles at crime scenes have been enlarged and processed, embroidered. Can textile tell about a crime from a different perspective than the usual one?”
- Assistant
- Photos
- Matilda Kenttä
- Denis Romanovski
Vi är kvar, vi ger inte upp
We are still here, we do not give up
2022
The work is a result from a residency at Arbetarrörelsens Arkiv och Bibliotek (Labor Movement Archive and Library) in Flemingsberg outside Stockholm. It was later shown in the exhibition Konst åt alla (Art for All), which opened on December 7, 2022. The image comes from the seamstresses' occupation of the Eiser factory in Sollefteå in 1981. The work is a digitally printed photograph on viscose fabric where we have then brushed the fabric with wood glue and water to try to capture a movement, or perhaps to pause a movement. We found the image in the archive of Beklädnasarbetarförbundet (the Garment Workers' Union) at the Labor Movement Archive and Library in Flemingsberg.
- Collaboration
- Photos
- Frida Hållander
- Frida Hållander
Sebastian Dahlqvist,
Konstfrämjandet Stockholm
& Arbetarrörelsens Arkiv och Bibliotek
Konstfrämjandet Stockholm
& Arbetarrörelsens Arkiv och Bibliotek