Charlotte Johannesson

11 Feb 2023 – 7 May 2023

Last night we attended the exhibtion lanuch of Charlotte Johanson. This exhibition brings together textiles, digital graphics, plotter prints, paintings and screenprints made over the past 50 years. Image, pattern, colour, texture, material and language recur and play out across time and different mediums. The survey brings handmade paper works from the early 1990s, presented here for the first time, into conversation with new experiments in lace made especially for this exhibition. It proposes that these little-known facets of Johannesson’s work might be understood in connection with the rest of her practice as a form of what she calls ‘fibre art’. But more than anything, this exhibition underscores the politically and artistically radical nature of her work, positioning her as a forerunner of today’s post-feminist and digital art.

The work of Charlotte Johannesson (b.1943, Sweden) represents a synthesis between the artisanal and the digital. Over the past 50 years, she has explored the formal and conceptual connections between the craft technology of the loom and the digital technology of computer programming. From the outset, Johannesson saw ‘great synchronicity between the two machines’ that became her tools for making images.

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11 Feb 2023 – 7 May 2023

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