Kari Anne Helleberg Bahri “Sew up”！

Kahb-03, Fall,140x140x17cm Height variable (140cm frame),White” shirts made of old sheets, table clothes, etc. on a frame. Stained with coffee, paint and pencil drawing

I work mainly with textile objects and installations. My artwork is concerned with human situations and often reflects or depicts clothing, either in form, materials, or both. Clothes, being intimately related to the body, are directly connected to mankind and therefore a natural conduit for human stories. I employ clothing and textiles as a means of communication, freed from their basic function as body coverings.

Kahb-05, Circus,2017,37x40x30cm,Small garment , circustent
Kahb-12,Nest,2017_2018,65cm diameter,Leather straps
Kahb-09,Close(d),2015,17x153xca 100 (3 pieces)cm,Three textile objects(wool mittens, quits etc)in wooden frames

The textiles we wear form a boundary between the individual and the outside world. Clothes are « the meeting point between the private and the public », writes Entwistle in the book The Dressed Body. Despite the thin, fragile properties of textiles, they constitute a considerable boundary and protection, while communicating information about the individual and how he or she interacts with society. My object is to reveal the person under the clothing, the individual’s mental or emotional state.

Kari Anne Helleberg Bahri

「Sew up」Online Exhibition
2022.10.8 – 12.11
Bluerider ART 台北．敦仁Tue.-Sun., 10am – 7pm
台北市大安區大安路一段 101 巷 10 號 1F
Bluerider ART 台北．仁愛Tue.-Sat., 9am – 6pm
台北市大安區仁愛路四段25-1號10樓