Exhibitions & projects
I have thought a lot about the flagpole, how it rises up from the ground, how it creates a new space in the garden where it stands. A line, a mark in the landscape. It made me think of invisible lines and marks in our surroundings, a demarcation between yours and mine or a feeling in the body when you walk barefoot in soft grass or do the same on a noisy country road.
From the beginning, I wanted to explore what is in the ground around Diö Konsthall. With the help of a divining rod, we can find water beneath the surface. I asked around in the village; many had stories about some older relative who could point out the best place to dig a well. I started from that idea and was inspired by these stories. The final result is a musical piece that will be performed at the opening. The work is an activation of the landscape and the village; the sounds are frequencies from tuning forks, drums, clarinet, and my voice. I will also outline the energy that accumulates around the flagpole; I draw with iron wire in different colors. The wires create movements around the black flagpole, and the pattern changes depending on how you move through the landscape.
Petra Lindholm works with various techniques and moves seamlessly between the digital, two-dimensional, and the analog, tactile. She alternates between textile images, sound, and moving images.
Petra Lindholm (b. 1973 in Karis, Finland) lives and works outside Älmhult in Småland. She studied at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm (1996–2001) and has held solo exhibitions at galleries and institutions in the Nordic countries, Finland, Germany, Poland, Italy, and the USA. She is represented in the collections of Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Malmö Art Museum, Borås Art Museum, Västerås Art Museum, EMMA museum, Finland, ProArtibus, Finland, and Kiasma, Helsinki. In 2001, she received the Maria Bonnier Dahlins Scholarship, in 2006 she was awarded the third prize at the Carnegie Art Awards, and in 2018 she received the Axel Theodor Sandberg Prize from the Royal Academy of Arts. In recent years, she has also completed several larger public art projects where she worked spatially with sculpture and installation.
