Ingela Ihrman - First Came the Ocean, 2024 - Juac, Selva di Val Gardena

Ingela Ihrman, First Came the Ocean, 2024. Environmental Installation. 25 x 5 m. Commissioned by Biennale Gherdëina 9. Photo by Martin Demetz
Ingela Ihrman, The Wandering Spruce, 2015. Performance on 01.06.2024. Courtesy the Artist and Ögonblicksteatern i Umeå, Sweden. Photo by Tiberio Sorvillo

L’opres de Ingela Ihrman possa avëi la forma de scultures, performance, video y tesć. Si nrescida cëla de nvië via relazions empatiches danter la persones, l mond di tieres y dla plantes, per “giaurì orizonc nueves y dé perspetives sun cie che l ue dì vester vives”, tla paroles dl’artista svedeja. Tla performance Giant Otter Giving Birth (2012), per ejëmpl, à Ihrman sëura n guant da luntra y cufeda te n piz de si lerch de espusizion, simuleiela la nasciuda de trëi pitli che vën ora cun fadia dal corp da stramp grant dl tier. L’oma cëla daldò de ti puzené ju l licuid amniotich y de ti judé a abiné la tëtes. La reazions dl publich va dala desfidënza al rì, ma deguni resta dejenteressà.

Per The Parliament of Marmots prejënta Ihrman na performance y na scultura. Ntan i dis dl’inaugurazion mëtela n scena The Wandering Spruce, ulache l’artista reprejentea na puta de pëc – coche chëles che ie te Gherdëina – che va da nord a sud y che lascia tumé via per fonz sumënza fata de papier sutil ros. La nstalazion First Came the Ocean ie ntant sce fata da n gran schelet de n tier dl mer – coche chëi che vivova dan 250 milions de ani tla Dolomites – metù adum da taies y rames de lëns dl post, ndeblii dal’epidemia dl chëifer dla scorza y tumei do l ultim bur tëmp. Tl’opra mët Ihrman n relazion i fossii di meres antics cun i lëns tumei, y va nsci zeruch a canche la Elpes fova scolieres de curei, la valeda plëina d’ega y l pra l sot dl mer. (M.P.) 

INGELA IHRMAN

Ingela Ihrman (1985, Kalmar, Sweden) lives and works in Stockholm. Ingela’s work is sparked by the strong emotions of everyday life and a desire to understand, question or express certain aspects of being alive, social and human. She graduated from Art In the Public Realm, Konstfack, Stockholm. Recent solo exhibitions include Malmö Konsthall; Carl Eldhs Ateljémuseum, Stockholm; Gasworks, London; Åstorps Konsthall; Bohusläns Museum, Uddevalla; Karlin Studios / FUTURA, Prague. Group Exhibitions include Gropius Bau, Berlin; Beaux-Arts de Paris, Paris; Eden Projects, Cornwall; La Casa Encendida, Madrid; Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade; and Malmö Konstmuseum. She participated in the Yokohama Triennale; Nordic Pavilion, 58th Venice Biennale; and 11th Gwangju Biennale.

Ingela Ihrman - First Came the Ocean, 2024 - Juac, Selva di Val Gardena

Ingela Ihrman, First Came the Ocean, 2024. Environmental Installation. 25 x 5 m. Commissioned by Biennale Gherdëina 9. Photo by Martin Demetz
Ingela Ihrman, The Wandering Spruce, 2015. Performance on 01.06.2024. Courtesy the Artist and Ögonblicksteatern i Umeå, Sweden. Photo by Tiberio Sorvillo

L’opres de Ingela Ihrman possa avëi la forma de scultures, performance, video y tesć. Si nrescida cëla de nvië via relazions empatiches danter la persones, l mond di tieres y dla plantes, per “giaurì orizonc nueves y dé perspetives sun cie che l ue dì vester vives”, tla paroles dl’artista svedeja. Tla performance Giant Otter Giving Birth (2012), per ejëmpl, à Ihrman sëura n guant da luntra y cufeda te n piz de si lerch de espusizion, simuleiela la nasciuda de trëi pitli che vën ora cun fadia dal corp da stramp grant dl tier. L’oma cëla daldò de ti puzené ju l licuid amniotich y de ti judé a abiné la tëtes. La reazions dl publich va dala desfidënza al rì, ma deguni resta dejenteressà.

Per The Parliament of Marmots prejënta Ihrman na performance y na scultura. Ntan i dis dl’inaugurazion mëtela n scena The Wandering Spruce, ulache l’artista reprejentea na puta de pëc – coche chëles che ie te Gherdëina – che va da nord a sud y che lascia tumé via per fonz sumënza fata de papier sutil ros. La nstalazion First Came the Ocean ie ntant sce fata da n gran schelet de n tier dl mer – coche chëi che vivova dan 250 milions de ani tla Dolomites – metù adum da taies y rames de lëns dl post, ndeblii dal’epidemia dl chëifer dla scorza y tumei do l ultim bur tëmp. Tl’opra mët Ihrman n relazion i fossii di meres antics cun i lëns tumei, y va nsci zeruch a canche la Elpes fova scolieres de curei, la valeda plëina d’ega y l pra l sot dl mer. (M.P.)

INGELA IHRMAN

Ingela Ihrman (1985, Kalmar, Sweden) lives and works in Stockholm. Ingela’s work is sparked by the strong emotions of everyday life and a desire to understand, question or express certain aspects of being alive, social and human. She graduated from Art In the Public Realm, Konstfack, Stockholm. Recent solo exhibitions include Malmö Konsthall; Carl Eldhs Ateljémuseum, Stockholm; Gasworks, London; Åstorps Konsthall; Bohusläns Museum, Uddevalla; Karlin Studios / FUTURA, Prague. Group Exhibitions include Gropius Bau, Berlin; Beaux-Arts de Paris, Paris; Eden Projects, Cornwall; La Casa Encendida, Madrid; Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade; and Malmö Konstmuseum. She participated in the Yokohama Triennale; Nordic Pavilion, 58th Venice Biennale; and 11th Gwangju Biennale.