#208 INTERVIEW: FRIDA FJELLMAN
13 January, 2008 » leave a message (1) » link to this post
{images: frida fjellman | white ceramic lemmings}
Via Christina and Sara {mori & mimosa}, who sent me the lovely book Stockholm's Ateliers, I discovered their friend Frida Fjellman, a talented glass and ceramic artist who creates wonderful small worlds by using figurative glass and ceramics... Her latest exhibition, Nocturnal Dreams, was recently shown at Gustavbergs Konsthall. Here's a little interview I did back in December...
• please tell us something about yourself...
I was born in a small town in Sweden but I live and work in Stockholm. I think that I am about to get a dog.
• ...and your education
master of fine art, Ceramics and glass {at Konstfack, Stockholm}
• tell us something about your projects abroad
It is important for me, even after my MFA, to learn new things. So I try to put myself in new situations with new people with different opinions about how things should be done. It is always interesting and useful to get abroad.
{images: cathrine edwall | nocturnal dreams, 2007}
• please tell us something about your latest exhibition, Nocturnal Dreams
Nocturnal Dreams is a continue of my earlier work but this time I had the chance to work more with the room.
My intention has been to make it totally clear for the visitor that something else starts in my room. I always work very visual but that doesn't mean that the content is less important. The exhibition can be seen as a scenary of a dream drama; an animal's dream or someone else's dream, not necessarily a good dream, but like dreams can be - things turn into each other, everything is possible in a natural way with no rules and there is no hierarchy. But it can also be seen as just a visual story.
I wanted Nocturnal Dreams to be a breathing space from the daily round.
{image: frida fjellman | nocturnal dreams, 2007}
• what are you working on at the moment?
A public commission for a medical center in Gothenburg.
• how did you end up in the latest book by Jeu de Paume, Stockholm's Ateliers?
I think that they just asked me... I don't remember how they found me. They didn't know that we {mori & mimosa} were friends.
• do you have your own studio/atelier or do you share a place?
I have my own studio, my studio is very important for me, it's my private space and I spend a lot of time there.
{images: frida fjellman | other place - Haninge Konsthall, 2005}
• are there any artists you would like to share with us?
Mariko Mori, Roman Signer and Mona Hatoum...
• are there any favourite blogs or websites you would like to share with us?
mayby this: Cripple Creek Antler company
and this: manystuff {new blog: http://manystuff.org}
• if you could do anything tomorrow... what would it be?
Go to Bali or get a dachshound or a Rhodesian Ridgeback or both...
{images: frida fjellman | other place - The Swedish Glassmuseum, 2005}
