Jakob Jennerholm Hammar & Josefin Åberg

About

VÄXELVERKAN The exhibition, created by Jakob Jennerholm Hammar (b. 1991) and Josefin Åberg (b. 1995), is a collaborative project and exchange of knowledge that explores the relationship between technology and craftsmanship, patterns, materials, and code. With backgrounds in creative programming, as well as textile art and design, the exhibition takes shape through a dialogue between two artistic practices. Despite initial differences in working methods, the artists converge in code-based structures and the algorithmic nature of textiles. Their collaboration began in preparation for the previous exhibition "Bristfälliga instruktioner" (2023) and in a shared search for the transformative potential of the flawed. Through uncontrollable digital flows, technical glitches, improvisation, and unfinished conversations, something unpredictable and surprising emerges from the strict grids that frame and shape pixels and fibers. The title of the exhibition stems from an artistic process where exchange and mutual influence are central—a work where two artists meet, much like strong-willed materials and unpredictable technologies.

Biography

Jakob Jennerholm Hammar (b. 1991) As an audiovisual artist and creative programmer, Jakob explores themes of fate, influence, and responsibility. Through processes of change and transformation invoked by high/low-tech experiments, code, pixels, textiles, and other objects emerge. The materials, tools, environment, and artifacts summoned are encouraged to leave their marks as collaborators. Patterns and code are drawn and written through continuously unpredictable conversations, interactions, and generative processes. Josefin Åberg (b. 1995) With a specialization in weaving, Josefin’s practice is driven by exploring the relationship between traditional weaving techniques, computer-generated tools, and digital aesthetics. By combining contrasting methods—analog/digital, slow/fast, human/machine—a dynamic interplay of opposites is created. Through these, alternative applications and contemporary expressions of traditional textiles within hand-weaving and industrial weaving are explored.