World Goal 9 - Brande

Global Goal 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure.

Artist: Nina K Ekman. 

Nina K Ekman has together with Brandes population make a gable in leftover yarn from citizens, local businesses and nearby carpet factories (Danish Wilton, Ege Täpper). Nina K Ekman has made oversized Philodendron bipinnatus – a plant that normally grows in warmer climates. It must symbolize the duality that lies in nature's incredible strength and ability to adapt to new conditions and its fragility in the face of human influence. This with reference to the climate changes that will also do Brande warmer, and for new and unknown plants to enter our cities and nature. Several Brandites have helped to knit/crochet 3745 patches for the work, which in its entirety consists of tufted, knitted, crocheted elements which are sewn together and impregnated with resin and hardened by the artist.

Nina K Ekman describes her artwork: "My artistic project stems both from the unique and untouched nature that I grew up with in Northern Norway, as well as bodily and emotional experiences. The correlation between the inner and outer world, reconciliation, appreciation of life and sustainability is thus became a red thread in my art."

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