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The Flower Collector
2016 The March Land, Ejbymose, DK. Performance / installation. With Charlotte Horn and Lin Horn. Concept developed with Eduardo Abrantes. Curated by Anna Weber Henriksen. |
The Flower Collector. Photo: Eduardo Abrantes
The Flower Collector. Photo: Eduardo Abrantes
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The Flower Collector is a collaborative installation/performance dealing with forensic research into printed floral patterns. In The Flower Collector, artist Maj Horn, together with her mother and sister, both landscape architects, investigates the morphology, history and use of the botanical species represented in some of the clothes she has worn over the years. Do we know their names? Where do they grow? What do they symbolize and how are they used? Can they be found together in nature as represented in the pattern? These became ubiquitous in western fashion from the late 17th century onwards, following the development of large-scale textile print techniques during the Industrial Revolution. Known in Europe and the Islamic world since the 12th century, the long and multi-faceted history of floral patterns goes back to China in the 1th century A.D., and is probably connected to a tradition of floral arrangement found in Egyptian civilization and all the way back to the Paleolithic Period (from 2 million - 10 000 years ago). As a research into the multiple layers of meaning hiding in floral patterns, The Flower Collector takes place in a natural surrounding, in a context of inter-generational dialogue, shared curiosity, and personal narrative. The Flower Collector was part of the exhibition The March Land, taken place the 11. September 2016, as part of The Nature Day, organised by Anna Weber Henriksen. The concept of the project was developed together with artistic researcher Eduardo Abrantes. Charlotte Horn (f. 1954) is a landscape architect, working for Varde Municipality. Lin Horn (f. 1993) studies landscape architecture at the University of Copenhagen. Financial support: Glostrup Municipality and Naturens dag. |
The Flower Collector er en installation/performance omhandlende naturvidenskabelig forskning af blomstermønstrede tøjprints. I The Flower Collector undersøger kunstner Maj Horn sammen med hendes mor og søster, som begge er landskabsarkitekter, hvordan historie, morfologi (læren om organismers struktur og form) og brug af botaniske arter er repræsenteret i tøj som hun har gået klædt i gennem årene. Kender vi blomsternes navne? Hvor gror de? Hvad symboliserer de og hvordan er de brugt? Kan de findes i naturen i samme kombination som de er repræsenteret i tøjets mønstre? Blomstrede mønstre blev stærkt udbredt i vestens mode i slutningen af 1700tallet, på grund af udvikling af masseproduktions tekniker til tekstilprint, under den industrielle revolution. Den lange tradition for blomsterprints har været benyttet i Europa og den islamiske verden siden 1200tallet, i Kina siden 1000tallet og det er formodentlig forbundet med traditioner for blomsteraftryk, som går helt tilbage til det Egyptiske samfund og stenalderperioden (for 2 millioner – 10.000 år siden). I naturens omgivelser, undersøger The Flower Collector de forskellige lag af mening og historie som gemmer sig i blomstremønstrene. Det sker i dialog på tværs af generationer, fælles nysgerrighed og et personligt narrativ. The Flower Collector var en del af 1-dags udstillingen, Moselandet, som fandt sted d. 11. september 2016, som en del af Naturens dag, organiseret af Anna Weber Henriksen. Projektets koncept, projektbeskrivelse og fotos er udviklet sammen med kunstnerisk forsker Eduardo Abrantes. Charlotte Horn (f. 1954) er landskabsarkitekt, ansat ved Varde Kommune. Lin Horn (f. 1993) studerer landskabsarkitektur ved Københavns Universitet. Financial support: Glostrup Municipality and Naturens dag. |
The Flower Collector. Photos: Eduardo Abrantes
