Signe Emdal

Signe Emdal. Inifinity Root (183 x 56 x 9 cm. Unique piece)

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Previously shown at Basel 2022.

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The textile sculpture ‘Infinity Root’ (2021) is a poetic symbol of “the root of all life”. This work is the result of Signe Emdal’s fascination with mechanisms of plant communication and collaboration strategies, through touch and sight senses. The sensitivity of the plant systems is extraordinary, and often invisible to the human eye. The plant’s intelligent strategies are designed so that they can sustain life on earth for millions of years. The work is created using Emdal’s LOOP fusion technique, based on a manual translation of the electric tufting machine. In this process, ongoing rows of loops with six thin mohair threads are woven together with wool in a classic rug construction.

Materials: Mohair thread, wool, cotton.

Signe Emdal

designer

"Danish artist, Signe Emdal, characterizes herself as a textile composer, transforming emotions and ambiances into tangible constructions in textile, in an attempt to make a smoother way to collaborate in today’s hectic world. Her unique works transcend their materiality in reference to historic objects, spaces landscape and cultural textile heritage. Her process is both a mar riage of traditional cultures and new innovative textile structures that she develops herself. The nomadic journey of textile culture and women’s craft that emerges from different cultures and landscapes and migrates over centuries from country to country is characteristic of Emdal’s practice each new work invites a new technique, which takes its departure from the previous one. The individual processes that she creates are called “Fusion Techniques”.