A quilt, exhibition by Ingeborg Katie Åtland
The quilt is made up of some thousand squared pieces of textile sewn together by hand. Fabric attached to large canvases has been individually treated through several repetitions of coloring and natural dye. Thereafter the canvas is made into squares, and sewn together with other squares, which are again sewn together to form the patchwork.
Lista, which is among the southernmost places of Norway, and Lista Husflidlag communicating traditional craft and silent knowledge, both play key roles in informing on methods and ways of natural dye. I rehearse an iterative process of making, a woven work where colored surfaces are presented on their own, and next to the other.
Ingeborg Katie Aatland (b. 1994) was born in Jæren, in western Norway. She holds an MA in Architecture from the Bergen School of Architecture (2016-22), with an exchange to AHO (Oslo School of Architecture and Design), and FAU (School of Architecture and Urbanism, São Paulo). In addition, she holds a two-year degree in interior architecture from previous studies. Aatland lives and works in Bergen, Vestland. She runs an architecture and art practice working across the fields of architecture, performing arts, scenography, installation, textile, textual work, and as a teacher of youths, as well as in higher education. She draws inspiration from a number of expressions and medias, especially the theory of open form by Oscar Hansen, as well as Tim Ingold's thoughts on the value of thinking and learning about the world, through making. Aatland wishes to combine mind and matter, to engage imagination and reveries, while simultaneously caring for our physical surroundings and material resources. Aatland's practice is focused on the making, and dissemination of space, which after all is one of the main tasks of architecture: to divide, to organize the great endless whole, into smaller and smaller parts. Not for the few, but for the multitude.
