Upwards Through The Ceiling
Linnéa Sjöberg
Dec13–Feb22020
A fury of hands and feet encircle a loom’s spinning wheel, harnessed in motion yet quickening out of control. Blurs of bright clashes: mechanism and the softness of sinews amid marbled weaves of pinks, purples, static white. Upward Through The Ceiling, an exhibition of new woven works by Swedish artist Linnéa Sjöberg, is a reclamation of self, and a tangled pursuit to disambiguate body from labor, body from object.
Once a vessel for performative research—career woman, viking weaver, tattoo artist—Sjöberg mercilessly took on new identities, while also deconstructing personal archive and the detritus of memory. A stark departure from these dueling practices, suspended works squarely disembody persona and confront identity from within.
Selected Works

Linnéa Sjöberg
Nocturnal beings drawn into blindness,
2019

Linnéa Sjöberg
Release pressure from the nasal bone,
2019

Linnéa Sjöberg
They are watching your back,
2019

Linnéa Sjöberg
In the flower fields,
2019

Linnéa Sjöberg
The spinning mind down a sunset beach,
2019

Linnéa Sjöberg
My light orgasm,
2019

Linnéa Sjöberg
Tracing of sand grains,
2019