#marakatt-labba

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10.08.2024 - Kino og Nasjonalgalleriet

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Britta Marakatt-Labba (1951) Sami artist. The works The two of us tonight; You went; and You should have stayed.

The death of her father had a huge impact on five year old Britta Marakatt-Labba. He passed away on Christmas eve, hit by a car while he was on the way to his reindeer herd. She revisited the trauma in her works You went and You should have stayed. The grieving family made her very attentive to people's expression of emotions.

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Textile artist Britta Marakatt-Labba's embroidery of Sami culture, indigenous Finno-Ugric people inhabiting the Arctic

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thinking about all the times i’ve seen people post Britta Marakatt-Labba’s artwork The Crows on social media but they’d cropped it so you could only see the crows gradually turning into men. if you’ve never seen it, The Crows is textile art of crows flying and turning into humans who then turn into police officers who attack a group of sámi people peacefully protesting during the alta controversy in the 1970s and 80s, with burning lavvus (a type of tent-like things sámi people used to live in) in the background. The government sent 10% of their police force to Alta and tried to send the military after the protesters, that’s what the picture is about. people love to remove the political context and only get the aesthetically pleasing parts

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Textile artist Britta Marakatt-Labba's embroidery of reindeer herding in Sami culture, indigenous Finno-Ugric people inhabiting the Arctic

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by Britta Marakatt-Labba | 1995

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Voci dal paesaggio nordico a Como

La Pinacoteca Civica di Como presenta nelle sale al primo piano, fino al 13 ottobre, la mostra Voci dal paesaggio nordico dedicata agli artisti svedesi Britta Marakatt–Labba e Lars Lerin, con la curatela degli architetti Davide Adamo e Marina Botta. Al centro della ricerca dei due artisti c’è l’osservazione e la rappresentazione di una regione del Nord Europa, ancora in gran parte allo stato…

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Britta Marakatt-Labba, Historja, 2003-2007, Embrodery, print, appliqué, and wool on linen

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Britta Marakatt-Labba

left: In the footsteps of the stars, 2021

right: Between the trees, 1986

Venice Biennale 2022, captured 07.05.2022

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“Garden of Six Seasons” at Para Site

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Britta Marakatt Labba (1951) from Historja, a 24-metre textile narrative about Sámi history from its early beginnings (2007).

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Flying Shamans

Britta Marakatt-Labba, 1985

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Britta Marakatt-Labba (b. 1951, Idivuoma, Sweden)

- Historja

(2003–07)

Embroidery, print, appliqué, and wool on linen

Britta Marakatt-Labba was born in Idivuoma, outside of Kiruna in northern Sweden, Growing up with a deep knowledge of the collective practice of reindeer husbandry (her parents and her husband are rein-deer herders), this sense of movement and migration permeates her textile works. A defining feature of Historja is its undulating horizon line. A procession of animals emerges from the woods in a procession; first foxes, then bears, then ungulates (all holy for Sámi), then the first people emerge following the reindeer, first on foot and then on sleds. An entire history is on view, one that begins and ends with Sámi cosmology, in between are different formations of people, who are herding animals, tending to crops and cattle, drying fish. Yet they are also engaged in other Important activities as well: revolting against oppressive authorities (the 1851 Kautokeino uprising) as well as gathering together for political self-determination (marked by the first assembly in Sámi Parliament). This is not a linear history, there are deliberate breaks, shifts in style and content It can be read from right to left or left to right, the storyline generatively shifting with each subsequent view.

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Britta Marakatt-Labba, Saami artist and storyteller