Texts
Often, parts of Åsa Dybwad Norman's projects are accompanied by text work, either in the form of an essay or as a reflective text. In the text archive below, you can read some of the texts. 


Det förgängliga är helt okej 
The ephemeral is just fine2024

Text: Åsa Dybwad Norman
Editor: Kira Carpelan
Graphic form: Lina Forsgren

Text written in relation to the textile artist Margaretha Eriksson Abeniu’s practice. Commissioned by Patrick Kretschek, Konstfrämjandet Västmanland. 

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När rötter bränns 
When Roots Burn
2024
Text: Frida Hållander and Åsa Dybwad Norman
Curatorial statement written for the group exhibition När rötter bränns (When Roots Burn) at Textilmuseet i Borås (The Swedish Museum of Textiles). 
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All denna jävla lycka! All this fucking happiness!
2022
Text: Åsa Dybwad Norman
Editor: Helena Scragg

The essay Modershjärtat (The Mother’s heart) was published in the exhibition catalog for  the Anna Sjödahl retrospective All denna jävla lycka! (All this fucking happiness!) at Norrköpings Konstmuseum 2022. 






Mjuka bevis #1 
Soft Evidence #12022

Graphic form: Matilda Kenttä
Text: Ida Säll

On-going fanzine project, this issue is an interview by Ida Säll with Åsa Dybwad Norman on memories and textiles as a witness.

Home-based work and home-based workers 1800-2021
2021 

Text: Frida Hållander and Åsa Dybwad Norman
Article (Chapter 20) with Frida Hållander in Home-Based Work and Home-Based Workers 1800-2021, edited by Malin Nilsson, Indrani Mazumdar and Silke Neunsinger. Brill Series: Studies in Global Social History, Volume: 45
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Fabriksflickor - De viljefulla textilarbetarna Factory Girls - The wilful textile workers2020

Text: Frida Hållander and Åsa Dybwad Norman
Graphic form: Hanna Stenman

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Bombyx Mori, well fitted for women?
2017
Text: Åsa Dybwad Norman

Essay on the experience of working with silk and the materials industrial history, written in relation to the project Bombyx Mori, well fitted for women?



Öxabäck IF, utan er ingen morgondagÖxabäck IF, without you, no tomorrow
2016

Text: Frida Hållander and Åsa Dybwad Norman
Graphic form: Sara Kaaman






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