2024/05/31

Critic Reads Deeply Into Toril Johannessen’s Use of Military Textiles

● 31/05/2024
“The fact that Johannessen has made homey rugs out of military materials could be interpreted as a classic critical cross-cutting manoeuvre: two different life worlds are set against each other in order to make us take a closer look at them.”
– Critic Kristoffer Jul-Larsen, framing Toril Johannessen’s, Deterrence and Reassurance (2024), an installation comprised of 18 rugs woven from military textiles. Currently showing at Bergen Kunsthall (NO), the work glibly comments on Norway’s militarized efforts to secure its arctic territory. [quote edited]
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