Kristina Sjönnemo
According to Specifications

I have often stopped in front of the electrical cabinets lining the village streets. They are old and grey, standing quietly outside each house with numbers written hastily in black marker. Their surfaces are scratched and weathered by years of sun and rain. Most of the time I pass them without a second thought. Yet sometimes I find myself slowing down. I think about the systems hidden inside them. Connections branching out in different directions. One thing linked to another. A hidden order holding things together. Perhaps this is also what draws me to Kristina Sjönnemo’s works. Threads stretch across silk. Wooden structures balance on slender legs. Ropes hang from the ceiling and disappear into cardboard boxes. Small knots. Coloured traces. Arrows pointing somewhere, or perhaps nowhere at all. Something tied together. Something branching out. The embroidered threads stretch, split and reconnect across the surface. Sometimes they resemble electrical diagrams. Sometimes roots spreading beneath the earth. Sometimes veins beneath skin, or ivy climbing an old stone wall. Sjönnemo’s objects seem to suggest a function. They look important, almost necessary, as if they belong to a larger system whose logic remains just out of reach. I keep searching for connections. Trying to understand where something begins and where it ends. The arrows point somewhere, almost as if inviting me to play along. Though I am no longer sure whether they indicate a destination or simply the desire for one. But perhaps that is not the point. And perhaps that is precisely why I keep looking. Not to understand everything. Only to follow the connections for a while and wonder where they might lead. - Caroline Larikka

Kristina Sjönnemo (b. 1993) lives and works in Gothenburg, Sweden. Her artistic practice revolves around our interpretation of objects and their functions. She holds a BFA from HDK-Valand – Academy of Art and Design, Gothenburg, Sweden (2025). Her work has been exhibited at venues including Galleri Konstepidemin (Gothenburg, Sweden), Studio Bantorget (Lund, Sweden), and Vapaan Taiteen Tila (Helsinki, Finland). @sjonnemo / www.kristinasjonnemo.com