SAMMENVÆVET

In 2018 I had a traumatic experience of sudden liver failure and a following three months of a survival fight in a hospital, I got miraculously healed with a liver transplant.  This liver from another human had been sewn into me... and I felt so grateful, and I thought I would from now on be carrying mountains. But my brain was unravelled and so it began a journey of sewing myself back together.

 

In the process of the lengthy, mental recovery I became a knitter and 

as a knitter I am fascinated by how threads, loops, and weaves mirror our own processes. How, in times of illness, grief, or change, we unravel and begin again. How we mend, adjust, and reshape ourselves and each other. Væv – in Danish – expresses both the bodily tissue and the textile weave, and it is exactly this human act of repairing and connecting tissue, both physical and emotional, that connects us all. 

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             INTERWOVEN is a photo exhibition about young people who have experienced physical and/or mental challenges. Some carry visible scars – others invisible. Through these portraits, we meet them as they are, and as they choose to be seen. The images hold both vulnerability and strength. The exhibition weaves together their stories with elements of craft: stitches, seams, and textile traces appear either directly in the photographs or through manual interventions added afterward.

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             INTERWOVEN is about becoming whole again. About carrying our marks with dignity. About being made of something fragile – and yet incredibly strong.

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