Hanna Åström

The normal habitat for knitted fabric is the human body. That is where we are used to seeing and feeling it. In which directions can knitting be taken if the body is no longer there? Can it stand on its own?

In my degree project, I explore the limits of what knitting could and is expected to be. I am interested in how the technique can be used without the end result necessarily being something useful. What happens when I let my creativity and my love for the technique lead the way? My focus is on crafting. With careful calculations and monotonous repetitions combined with openminded investigations of shape and colour, sculptural objects emerge from my hands.

I then position these objects in the middle of the room, a place where we are not accustomed to seeing knits, thereby challenging preconceptions of the technique and questioning old hierarchies within textile traditions.