UNN FAHLSTRÖM

Time wanderer

As I was invited to participate in the project Erratiker, I interpreted it as a project which stresses the aspect of displacement and wandering.

Contrary to the English word erratic (wanderer), the German word emphasizes the aspect of finding: Findling, something which has been found, but which seems to be strangely displaced. We all have found ourselves feeling displaced: Feeling like a Findling, waiting to be found and put into a context to which we belong, a context which gives us space, even a narrative. For me, born in Korea but raised as Norwegian and having found my home in Germany, displacement is part of my biography. But displacement is but a point of view, because the Findling never needed to be found: it was never lost or displaced. It is simply a wanderer, moved by ice and wandering through time.

Inside the container which I see as a Findling in its own right, I explore narrative structures which refer to the idea of time as single moments put together in the shape of a continuous line. In the four large scale textile works, the thread’s point-by-point movement through the fabric is a visualization of time and thereby a trace of our concrete actions. If the textile works are maps of my existence, the double layered photograph is a snapshot.

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