Outi Pieski - 'Art comes from the land, it's made for the land' | Tate

Drawing inspiration from her Sámi heritage, artist Outi Pieski creates large-scale textile installations which feature tassels based on traditional clothing. Her work references ‘duodji’, an Indigenous craft practice that was marginalised in the wake of Scandinavian colonialism.
In this short video, watch Pieski as she prepares new work for her exhibition at Tate St Ives.
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[@selwynr]

The painting (if it is one?) we only get a glimpse of is by far the most powerful thing on display, it looks superbly "from the land... for the land". A great pity we don't see more of it. The installation is moving conceptually and no doubt therapeutically for the artist (I'm not dismissing those things for what they are), but a tad twee aesthetically/imaginatively - more craft than a work of the unfettered, fully-fledged imagination (though I know imagination - the very life-blood of art - is suspect in today's art world).

[@tonyelizabeth3030]

Beautiful!

[@tomredwest]

Very innovative

[@annalisahansen2522]

Lovely ❤

[@belnick]

🤩

[@curtrod]

unless it doesn't, and it isn't 😊