Digital photography had lost the magic for me. I began to experiment with the photographic medium again, listening to what initially led me to work with photography. I could see that my background as a textile designer would show me a new path back to more craft-oriented, tactile work. I started with some small textile and photographic experiments and eventually began weaving my prints.
Since the 1990s, Danish artist Susanne Wellm has worked with photography, blending diverse analogue and digital techniques. Exploring the physical qualities of the two-dimensional image, she recently began combining photography and weaving, adding tactile layers of color, contrast, and depth to her pieces.
Time, memory, and narrative construction are recurring themes in her work. Drawing from an archive of found imagery, such as old family albums and historical movie stills, she connects the personal dramas of everyday life with the collective history and trauma of modern Europe.
Through collage and montage, Wellm assembles familiar, often unassuming, fragments of reality into multilayered poetic spaces. Here, fiction and fact, stagnation and movement, the internal and the external converge to create meaningful moments that remain open to interpretation, reflecting our ongoing search for meaning between ourselves and the world, between past and present.
Susanne Wellm graduated from The Royal Danish Academy of Architecture, Design and Conservation in 1995. She has exhibited extensively and is represented in several museum collections, most notably The Danish Arts Foundation; the Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Japan; The National Museum of Photography, The Royal Library, Copenhagen; and Kunstmuseum Brandts, Odense, Denmark.
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