Siv Støldal exhibits a capsule collection of felted wool workwear called Bodies Of Work, made in 2021 at the Sjølingstad Textile Factory Museum in Mandal, Norway, in collaboration with artist Else Karin Tysse Bysheim. Through several artist residencies at Sjølingstad, Støldal and Bysheim have explored the industrial worker and workwear through wool, inspired directly from Støldal´ grandfathers workwear.
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Siv Støldal exhibits a capsule collection of felted wool workwear called Bodies Of Work, made in 2021 at the Sjølingstad Textile Factory Museum in Mandal, Norway, in collaboration with artist Else Karin Tysse Bysheim. Through several artist residencies at Sjølingstad, Støldal and Bysheim have explored the industrial worker and workwear through wool, inspired directly from Støldal´ grandfathers workwear.
All fabrics are all made in the factory's spinning, dying, weaving and needle felting facilities. All garments are 100% wool and for the colorful felting she has utilized the waste wool, which cannot be used in the yarn industry, and have no value. The wool is refined through cleaning, washing, dyeing, drying and the noisy needle felting machine with the 4,800 needles that mechanically punctuate the fabric, down and up, down and up, again and again, until it appears as something new. Works of countless loose wool fibers grow to unique textiles.
Bodies of work
- when work is united with life
- when it begins before you were born and continues after you
The original work clothes are from my grandfather, the only garments he owned in denim. They hang in the attic of our families country house. A 200 year old house that constantly needs repairs. Both family members and guests will use them as work clothes for odd paint jobs and maintenance of the house. I believe they where bought in 1950s. The clothes have been used by over 70 people so far. A relay of hands and bodies, where one takes over where the previous left off. The clothes unite people who don't know each other. Everyone leaves their mark. Tools and machines wear holes.
Dressing for work. Dressing in the work itself. Become one.
Like when the machine's rapid pulse is united with your own pulse
- your heart and the machine's techno beat.
Siv Støldal
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Siv Støldal is a norwegian designer who works at the intersection between art and fashion.
She is interested in the relationships people have with clothes and approaches the core of the question from new angles in each project.
Siv Støldal's work has been shown at fashion week in London, Paris and within art institutions in Norway and internationally.
Siv Støldal has won several design awards and has been nominated for best menswear designer by the London Fashion Institute.
In this project, Støldal has studied and recreated a series of 'work clothes' with needle-felted plant-dyed wool in collaboration with artist Else Karin Tysse Bystad and Sjølingstad Wool Factory, Mandal, Norway. The project was first exhibited at Sjølingstad Uldvarefabrik in 2021.
And was later exhibited at KIIK, Tokyo, Japan October - November 2022.
Morteza Vaseghi is an Oslo-based creative director. Through research-based design and a systematic approach, Vaseghi creates exploratory and unique works. He has designed the graphics in the exhibition. https://mortezavaseghi.com
All pictures are by photographer Synne Sofi Bårdsdatter Bønes. www.synnesofi.com
Model is Mouhcine El Khamlichi.
