Pia Ferm (b.1986) in Lysekil, Sweden. Ferm graduated from the art academy Staedel Schule in Frankfurt in 2020, where she currently resides and works. The exhibition Plow your fields, keep your enemies close was Pia Ferm's first exhibition at the gallery, and in Scandinavia. The presentation at CHART Art Fair 2024 follows a tradition of the landscape as a muse and inspiration, in a balancing act between figuration and abstraction.

The artist uses a range of different materials and methods in her artistic practice, including a focus on weaving and tufting, however also employing stone and marble in her sculptural practice. Ferm often builds her own looms, both for woven and tufted works, in varying sizes. Each work begins with a sketch, drawing or water color, which becomes the basis and origin of each woven or tufted work. According to the artist, the exhibition is about 'herself, because it always is to a certain extent'. Ferm wants to explore strategies around her work and process; 'it's always about my work, about studio work, about an undercurrent of thoughts regarding value and time, about the strangely elusive concept of currency and attempting to pull it all together... conceptually and practically.'

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