Until 11 FEB

Charlotte Johannesson
Save as art?

Charlotte Johannesson (b. 1943) lives and works in Skanör, Sweden. Her work explores the formal and conceptual connections between the craft technology of the loom and the technology of computer programming. Trained as a weaver, Johannesson began creating tapestries as art in the 1970s counter-cultural environment of Malmö. In 1981, she established the Digital Theatre, an experimental image production studio, with her partner, Sture Johannesson.

The exhibition at Friart brings together textiles, digital graphics, plotter prints, paintings and lace experiments created over the past fifty years: a constellation of motifs that invoke her engagement with satire of the State from hippy, to punk and cyberculture, to a more cosmic imaginary. The radical nature of her work positions her as a forerunner of today’s post-feminist digital art.

Curator

Nicolas Brulhart

Supports
  • State of Fribourg
  • Loterie Romande
  • Agglomeration Fribourg
  • City of Fribourg
  • Notthingham Contemporary
With special thanks to

Hollybush Gardens, London

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In collaboration with the University of Fribourg, Friart hosts the workshop Aesthetics & Critique VII: Beyond Reality? Virtuality and Experience on the first floor of the Charlotte Johannesson exhibition, Save as art?. On this occasion, Friart invites …
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