Space Floating Through My Eyes is an artist's book that, in text and images, revolves around Inger Bergström's artistic practice. The designer Sanna Haverinen has created a visual form consisting of an image insert and a text insert, enclosed in a double-sided screen print.
The art historian and writer Håkan Nilsson has contributed with the text "Ambiguous Change – Changing Ambiguity". With a focus on Bergström's current works, he reflects on the visual and the material, the intellectual and the bodily. The text "Fabric and Fabrication" is based on a conversation between the philosopher Jonna Hjertström Lappalainen and Inger Bergström. Here, the essence of the making is in the center, what does it mean that the manufacturing itself, how it is made, becomes pronouncedly visible in a work?
There's a love-hate relationship to the fabrics that I use. Working with a material such as textile gives rise to specific kinds of resistance in itself. When you fold, stitch fabrics together, they snag and squeak. I find that compelling. I don’t mind if that battle is visible.
– Inger Bergström in conversation with Jonna Hjertström Lappalainen
The book is available at Konst-ig Books, Stockholm, and konstigbooks.com.
