Starting from an expanded textile concept with an interest in how weaves, patterns and repetition create surfaces, volumes and systems, Rune finds new contexts and issues around how the analogue and artisanal can be used to grasp new digital materialities. Through sculpture of wood, yarn and 3d-print, she reflects on the
role of string and weaving for the development and future of humanity.
The exhibition shows a series of hanging sculptures made of dyed mohair yarn that connect architecture and people through resource-saving monumental methods.
The exhibition String Revolution , which is also the name of a new work specially made for Kulturcentrum Ronneby art gallery, is a tribute to the string as one of the most important human inventions and the method that perhaps most clearly shows man’s curious experimental testing of different materials, perhaps names should of time periods such as stone, bronze and iron in the future replaced by the age of lace?
Bella Rune (born 1971) lives and works in Stockholm. She is educated at Chelsea College of Art in London, UK and at Beckman’s School, Stockholm. She can be found i.a. represented in the collections at Moderna Museet and Magasin III. Bella Rune was until 2021 professor of textiles at Konstfack and now concentrates on her own artistic work
