As an artistic practitioner, it is important to interpret the present and offer an understanding of the world. But it is just as important to understand how to make meaningful interpretations. This means critically examining the boundaries of what defines the individual practice using societal issues that are part of peoples’ everyday lives.

In this year’s bachelor’s projects, we share in craftsmanship as a participatory practice, tools for the grieving process, fear that has been hidden behind the idea of nostalgia. We will see how shame is materialised and problematised, definitions challenged by that which does not allow itself to be defined, fragmentation and reconstruction of what were identities. The body’s visibility or invisibility in relation to other bodies is discussed. Normality is suggested as being superfluous, consumerism is set against human rights, and objects become languages that generate new mythologies.

The students of Ädellab are artistic practitioners, but they are also people with their own day-to-day lives and it is in the intersection between these two “realities” that they give voice to separate stories where the primary function is to set an example for the broadening of our mutual writing of history.

Miro Sazdic Löwstedt
Senior Lecturer in Crafts, specialising in jewellery