Angelica Falkeling (b. 1988, Degerfors, Sweden) is an artist and seamstress working across collage, drawing, performance, music, sculpture, textiles and video. They work with hobby materials, textile crafts and D-I-Y solutions in the scale of the domestic. They pay attention to textural play and logistic chaos.
Born into a working-class family who was taught to forget everything, they nowadays imagine what their forgotten folklore aesthetics might have looked like if it had been continued. Historically; it is all closely tied to the movement of the computer's invention mirroring a loom's punchcards, 1822. Their seamstress background serves as a web. They browse textile craft techniques into an ensembled practice. No family member taught them these skills; YouTube did. They depart from the dressed body and textiles as what makes spaces livable. They connect vulnerability, hard and soft materials, and skilled and unskilled labor as joint sequences.
They have a theoretical foundation in de-colonial, queer, and feminist future-making. In a broad sense, their research focuses on garment history, generational trauma, storytelling and tacit knowledge. They often collaborate with others and host events in communal spaces, approaching fiber arts as a decorative, material and relational practice.
They are currently finalizing a large knitted collage, depicting joyful and affirmative queer life where the masquerade operates as a time capsule, portraying their locally chosen family.
Their work has been shown and performed at CCA Glasgow, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Pracownia Portretu Gallery Łódź, TENT Rotterdam, Temporary Gallery Cologne, Textielmuseum Tilburg. They graduated with an MFA from the Piet Zwart Institute, in 2017 and a BFA from the Malmö Art Academy in 2014. They live and work in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Life with Fifi
Life with Fifi: Boeklezing en workshop
15:00–17:00
Op zondag 25 mei vindt in de Appel de boekpresentatie plaats van Life with Fifi, een boek voor alle leeftijden geschreven door schrijver en curator Kris Dittel en kunstenaar en ontwerper Angelica Fakeling. In aanwezigheid van de hond Fifi zullen Kris en Angelica voorlezen uit het boek en reflecties delen over wat het betekent om voor een ander wezen te zorgen en om hun wereld binnen te treden.
Life with Fifi
Book presentation
16.00 – 18.00
In this book, we narrate a day in the life of Fifi, from the moment she wakes up to when she falls asleep at night. Along the way, we share how we connect with her, how we see her understanding her surroundings and what she has taught us about companionship.
Published by _BÖKS, Edition of 350
Authors: Kris Dittel, Angelica Falkeling
Copy-editor: Clem Edwards
Design: Amy Suo Wu
Photography: Lili Huston-Hertreich
Moving Out Party I Multi-Avond
Above the Couch
Above the Couch is a solo exhibition consisting of drawing, paintings and textile works.
Kleurstoff
Tacit Knowledge is a video installation commissioned by the Textielmueum, Tilburg, as part of the group exhibition; To Dye For, curated by Adelheid Smit. To Dye For as a whole, delve into the origins of and stories behind the dyes in our textiles.
The Herbarium as a place for storing ideas
The Herbarium project explores the work environment in contemporary culture in which ideas are created and exchanged. The focus of Herbarium is to compile a collection of sealed creative energy in boxes (40х40х10, 40x20x10 or 20х40х10) of different generations of artists around the world. The contents of each box are accompanied by a description and a sound file with the artist's voice.
A Malmö Trilogy Chapter I: Armaturer
group exhibition together with Sara Lindeborg and Selma Sjöstedt. The artists have been invited to work on one exhibition which will be told in three chapters throughout the spring. Each chapter has a leading voice, yet each chapter is the sum of a collaborative exploration that guides us through the multiple folds that compose a practice. Idiosyncratic, unexpected, inconsistent bare meanings we like.
The Hoodie
Het Nieuwe Instituut and curator Lou Stoppard have invited a range of artists to respond to the themes of the project with a new work created from their own individual perspective and practice. In their mixed-media installation What We Are Made Of, Angelica Falkeling looks at cotton: the material most hoodies are made from. Falkeling uses audio and sculptural elements to explore the cotton industry's impact on the societies it touches and our climate.
Emotional Channel
Rib welcomes Angelica Falkeling and Anna Łuczak as they present their latest work, Emotional Channel, the result of their residency at Skafftfell Art Center in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland. The presentation includes a live-performance-set on Friday November 30 and an exhibition the following two days.
Repair
Repair is set in a TV studio during rehearsals for a talk show. The director, guests and musicians get involved in a conversation whose script is based on spontaneous events, conversations and educational TV programs. The starting point of the performance is the figure of the 'joykiller', a feminist concept with which theorist Sara Ahmed designates someone who does not adhere to the conventions that are supposed to deliver happiness and satisfaction, and thus opens space for new possibilities.