We are pleased to announce Petra Lindholm’s exhibition Whatever Knocks on Your Door, Dance with it at PM & Vänner in Växjö, Sweden.

Petra Lindholm works with different techniques and moves freely between the digital, two-dimensional and the analogue, tactile. She alternates between textile images, sound and moving images. This exhibition shows a series of new textile assemblages. The works are based on Lindholm’s interest in our surrounding soundscape and how it affects us. In this case, the images are inspired by the sound frequencies of three tuning forks and a specific colour chord. The motifs are landscapes based on her own video work from the beginning of the 2000s, among other things. She describes it as a stream of sceneries that have emerged through memories, the subconscious and personal experiences.

Petra Lindholm’s works can initially be perceived as paintings, but are in fact made of textiles. She uses thin fabrics in different colours, that are applied in several layers with glue on panels. Lindholm strives for an existence where she embraces the random and spontaneity that arises in the process. The images grow organically as she adds new layers and physically processes the surfaces with her hand and knife. In several of the new works, she has also for the first-time drawn parts of the motif with pastel chalk.

”The fabric lives its own life and the result is better when I don’t try to control it too much. It can be a bit like life, the result can be better if we let go a little of the control. Dare to be comfortable in the uncomfortable.”

–Petra Lindholm