Six questions for
Kristina Sedlerova Villanen

Tique asks six questions to an artist about their work and inspiration.
This week: Kristina Sedlerova Villanen.

Kristina Sedlerova Villanen - 1 000 000 bebbe 1 drawing on the wall, belgian chocolate 75% cacao, freezer, wild boar´s blood, viking line membership card, marl stone, sugar, table spoon, cement 2019. Photo documentation by Romy Finke
Artist Kristina Sedlerova Villanen
Lives in Helsinki and Brussels
Website https://www.k000000.biz

How do you describe your own art practice?

My practice could be described as a rope walker´s dance balancing above the abyss.

Which question or theme is central in your work?

Time, perishability of matter, and a human factor are quintessential.

I often transform my existing works by reusing their parts and materials or hardcore updating their shapes, meanings and contexts.

In Winter 2023 while working on installation Blueberry pie tectonic body xx (2017-2023), I chopped off three slices (approx. 300 kg each) from no time sculpture I made in 2018. Then I spread all the old and new pieces of stone, like mayonnaise around SINNE Gallery space.

What was your first experience with art?

I started to draw on the wallpapers of our apartment as soon as I began to crawl and walk as a child. I drew as high and far as I could reach with my arms.

What is your greatest source of inspiration?

I love to wander around and daydream. Sometimes I notice things a bit out of place or on the edge of a commonly agreed order, and it captivates me.

Obsessing is also nice while disturbing.

What do you need in order to create your work?

An irresistible impulse for action – to interact and materialize some sort of a thought or a clash of many. Then boredom, space, time.

What work or artist has most recently surprised you?

Recently I encountered a work by Fabiola Burgos Labra – a fresh onion bulb tightly attached by knitting rope to a piece of a copper tube, leaning to the wall. What is curious to me, is how the components of this work are forming a new meaning, which separately these objects do not hold.

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