Welcome to the launch of Britta Marakatt-Labba's new book Stitched Worlds. Tuesday, January 30 at 5-7 pm at Galleri Helle Knudsen, Hantverkargatan 18-20 on Kungsholmen in Stockholm. At 6 pm the book is presented by Britta Marakatt-Labba and the editor Jan-Erik Lundström.
The book and the new silkscreen prints will be available for purchase HERE on January 30. The first 50 to order books online will receive signed copies.
During the evening, Marakatt-Labba talks with the book's editor, Jan-Erik Lundström, and the book's designer, Milena Karlsson, is also present. Signed copies are available for purchase at a special price.
In connection with the book release, Galleri Helle Knudsen publishes two new silkscreen prints by Marakatt-Labba: One Day in November and New Goals.
Sággan mailmmit/Brodrade världar/Stitched Worlds is the second monograph on Britta Marakatt-Labba's artistry. Embroidered Stories (2010) followed her art from its debut in the late 1970s until 2010. This publication, the sister volume Stitched Worlds, guides to Marakatt-Labba's art from 2011 until today.
The book includes images of over ninety artworks, emphasizing the rich production of recent years. It also has a poetry suite by the Sami-Swedish poet Linnea Axelsson, an equally engaging conversation where the artist and writer Lena Ylipää meets the artist herself, as well as three newly written essays – by Sami-Norwegian cultural scientist Britt Kramvig, Inuit curator and art scholar Heather Igloliorte and the art scholar and writer, also the book's editor, Jan-Erik Lundström - who generously shares insights and insights into, perspectives on and knowledge of Britta Marakatt-Labba's artistry. Stitched Worlds is fully trilingual – Sami, Swedish, and English.