Participants
Petra Lindholm's art project will be based on a divining rod made from a flexible wooden fork. Her grandmother was a skilled dowser and was hired when water had to be drilled; she always found the strongest water vein with the help of her divining rod. A divining rod can also be used to locate other energy fields in the ground. Lindholm will examine the soil around the flagpole and expand her investigation into the village of Diö. She is interested in energy fields and frequencies and has used tuning forks and sound frequencies in previous works. The purpose of the project is to document something that is not visible to the naked eye but still affects us. Lindholm wants to start with the divining rod and use it to bring people in the village together. The form of documentation and presentation is open.
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 had 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 Konstmuseum, Borås Konstmuseum, Västerås Konstmuseum, EMMA museum, Finland, ProArtibus, Finland, and Kiasma, Helsinki. In 2001, she received the Maria Bonnier Dahlins scholarship, in 2006 she was awarded third prize in the Carnegie Art Awards, and in 2018 she received the Axel Theodor Sandberg prize from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. In recent years, she has also carried out a number of larger public art commissions where she has worked spatially with sculpture and installation.
