Lina Sofia Lundin

Residence period: January 2019
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La piel de Casa Jazmín

“Textile is our second skin. We use it to protect ourselves from sun, to keep us warm, to cover our bodies and homes.”

Lina Sofía´s long research is focused on textiles, particularly on natural dyeing techniques.
This topic is taken as path to recover ancient knowledge that is becoming lost, but also as an exchange of knowledge that creates community. The knowledge she is digging into is that which generates autonomy; using local resources, interweaving old wisdom with new needs and looking towards new horizons where ways of production are more sustainable on a social, economical and ecological level.
In Blanca, she has discovered the local tradition of making esparto carpet, an extinguishing manufacturing industry that was once one of the main incomes of the area.
During her first residence at Centro Negra in 2018, she introduced natural dyeing techniques to the only esparto carpet factory currently existing in the town. This time, she has met new interesting local experts and exchanged with them her dyeing knowledge for their esparto craft techniques.
In this open studio Lina presents esparto fibers woven or stitched into frames and wooden items for making carpets found in Casa Jazmín, one of the old humble houses at La Peña Negra. Some of the fibers are dyed naturally with peel from pomegranate, rusty iron tools and with indigo from her garden in Sweden.
The work was done in Casa Jazmín in an attempt to give to the old walls of this small building a new skin.

Residency funded by IASPIS (Swedish Arts Grants Committee) and Helge Ax:son Johnson Foundation.