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TO TRAVEL: PLANETS, POSITIONING, NAVIGATION/
ATT FÄRDAS: PLANETER, POSITIONER, NAVIGERING

Mixed media

Showed at Gallery Tegen 2 Stockholm 2011 >

According to the Bible, The three wise men found the newborn child by reading the positions of the stars, and then navigate them. Agency shows how The three wise men's physicals positions are in direct contact with the planetary positions and how the wandering men are used as tools to perform the mission, to which kings, health, a greater king, welcome to Earth.

In the Bible story is the word "kings" synonymous with "wise men". Performance is judged as more important than the personaliities and who The three wise men were, or came from remains hidden. The Artwork TO TRAVEL: PLANETS, POSITIONING, NAVIGATION is
also linked to contemporary travellers seeking and moving from country to country.

SUN, PLANETS AND LOOPS / PLANETER OCH SOLVARV

Mixed media
Showed at LABYRINTH, Studio44 Stockholm 2011 >

Karin Häll's artworks reflecting a universal conversation
circling around humans variables.
The sculptures relate to illusiones and living-conditions.
Every work gets its own narrative story.
The point has been to describe a occurrence or
a separate state.

"CHURCHVILLAGE". Tin, MDF, carpet, threads.

"Anekdoter", Temporart>
/ Västmanlands Läns Museum, Västerås 2011>

"Storytelling from the top of my head",
Supermarket, Kulturhuset, Stockholm 2011>

"EYEBRIGHT". Tin, mixed materia.

"Anekdoter", Temporart>
/Västmanlands läns museum Västerås 2011 >

"Storytelling from the top of my head"
Supermarket, Kulturhuset, Stockholm 2011>

"FAMILY THREADS". Gloves, threads.H: 200 cm
W. 100 cm. Soloexhibition "earth isn't earth"
Konstfrämjandet, Örebro 2010 >

In Karin Häll’s art work “Släkttrådar/Family Threads"
is an ongoing dissection of class and social heritage.
The merged laced worker- gloves concatenated into a
comprehensive thread work, describes both the personal
kinship, the collective memory of the working class social
heritage and linguistic barriers of power.

"TREES" and "SHACKLES" were shown in group exhibition, "Sibling", Studio44, Stockholm 2008.
"TREES" are a mental commentary on mountain birch tree whose gnarled
appearance got their shape from the hars
climatic and soil.

"FINGERS 1". W.20 cm. Material:threads, stoff, textile

Sculpture Series "PROTECTION" is composed of eight prototypes of the
construction worker, modeled of colored candles. The content revolves
around linguistic structures and defects, contradictions in communications
and display a symbolic loss of vision, hearing, speech. A perception of
the outside call agreement.

"COMING OUT". Materials: oil cloth, sewing thread, polystyrene beads, plastic tubes.
"Coming out" consists of six parts: torso, gloves, vests, hats and shorts.
Since the sculptures are mounted on plastic tubes are they moving in the wind.
Height of the torso (without plastic tube) is 120 cm.

"TROUSERS". Hardplaster, schellack. H. 100 cm. Vetlanda Museum 2008 >

INSTALLATION, Galleri Enkehuset/Kulturhuvudstadsåret -98, Hötorget, Stockholm
Härnösands konsthall 2001 >