“Bones” is an independent artistic offshoot of a research initiative addressing how contemporary blacksmithing and material-based craft can reconnect with traditions of memorial culture, where the participating artists approach the boneness of things through their individual artistic voices.
Bone is one of humanity’s earliest materials and tools. Before industrial production and standardized equipment, bone carried both practical and symbolic functions — shaped into implements for cutting, scraping, piercing and ritual use. In “Bones,” this material history becomes a starting point. Bone appears both literally and metaphorically: as structure, relic, fragment and witness.
Staying close to the language of material-based craft, “Bones” opens toward broader reflections on grief, remembrance and continuity.
In short, “Bones” is the prompt, and the artists’ works move between artefact and artwork, between utility and ritual object.
“Bones” brings together works by Jokum Lind Jensen, Karl Hallberg, Heiner Zimmermann and Tobias Birgersson in the Yellow and Black rooms at Not Quite Fengersfors.
— Iron Notes and its Swedish focus project Grave Marker – Forging Future Remembrance, supported by Creative Europe Culture.
