Exhibition at Núllið Gallery in Reykjavík in November 2022
Exhibition of textile artworks at Jónshús in Copenhagen.
February and March 2022.
Hysteria is an exploration of modern femininity, female stereotypes and the gendered upbringing of girls. It explores and reveals the emotional tension of being seen as the lesser gender and the social rules women and girls have to follow each day. The collection reveals the emotional tension of being female, of not being listened to or taken seriously, of not being heard and never being seen as equal, of being put in a pink box and told to be quiet, polite and submissive.
By researching the process of being brought up as a girl and what restrictions and rules young girls have to follow, there is a deliberate effort to reclaim femininity and all it's associations at the same time as calling out all it's ridiculousness by using toungue-in-cheek humour and embroidered statements.
The collection itself reflects on the moment a young girl tries on her mother’s clothes and thus finds herself embodied in modern femininity. But it is too much for her, the clothes are heavy and too big and she is overwhelmed with the social pressures of being female. She is drowning in femininity.
MA graduation collection from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design.
Hand embroidery works.
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Design for AW2021 and PRE SS 2022
Design for MS 2020 and MA 2020
Editorial for Bast Magazine featuring the Hysteria collection.
Photography: Frank Lohmann
Stylist: Sofie Thuesen Broeng
Makeup: Amalie Rosa Duus Jensen
Photography assistant: Dennis Larsen
Model (blond) Ella Caroline - And Model Management
Model (brunette) Sara Damborg - And Model Management
Capsule collection focusing on four different aspects of visual tension; tension through color, tension through texture, tension through shape and tension through movement.
Fashion illustration/installation project.
Theme was the means to which people go to decorate their faces with inanimate objects.
Capsule collection from 2015.
Collection created through the process of cutting up pre-existing garments to create new shapes and silhouettes.
