ABOUT SIGNE EMDAL

~The loom window is where I store memories

Visual artist and Master Artisan Signe Emdal approaches the sculptural medium as an intuitive act of embodying sensory memories, as well as social models, dialogues, delicate light, structures, landscapes, art & cultural history, community building, ancient carpet and rug traditions, feminism and cosmos.

The artist receives and interprets phenomena, while producing new enigmatic appearances. Her site-specific artworks are built inside of the loom window without a planned grid or a sketch, but instead, immersed in her subjects and the collective.

Her sculptures and tapestries are fragments of ancient structures, combined by hand in a futuristic fluid process to create medium series. This sub-practice of building physical foundations for the work, is inspired by the Interstellar Medium (ISM) and rooted in the artist's technical 20 year experience in tracking, archiving and building structural expressions for a future world.

Movement, timelines and changes of scenery have a deep impact on her site-specific artworks, that aim to offer experiences of empowerment, flexibility and care towards a higher attention for the sensory body of all life.

~My body of work is my heart

Signe Emdal like to work in beautiful light filled locations world wide (especially by invitation to artist in residence programs) where she finds space to bring out the spirit of the locations into her sculptural work. She also lives with family anchors in Denmark.

Emdal´s sculptures are represented in museum collections, such as Malmø Art Museum in Sweden and The collection of the Danish Art Foundation. Her works are acquired by private contemporary art collectors worldwide, and she had numerous solo and group exhibitions across Denmark and Europe, such as in the National Gallery of Denmark, Skagen Art Museum and her upcoming show in 2027 at Maison Louis Carré in France.

The medium series are:

Lingerie (2015) ~

Esoteric (2016) ~

Touch (2018) ~

Loop (2020) ~

Ecdysis (2024) ~ …

More about the Medium-series via this link

Touch Medium:

Signe´s Touch sculptures evoke hybrid aesthetics and timeframes, offering widespread associations, such as animal furs, butterflies, ceremonial artifacts and luscious parures. Sensitive and sensual, the wool sculptures vibrate with the slightest air and seem almost alive, like creatures from outer space, or exotic species from the deep-sea, another great inspiration to the artist besides science fiction, art history, navigation systems, poetry, feminism and music. The sculptures are layers of delicate memories, body memory, fragility, invisible skin.

Ecdysis Medium: (soon)

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