Sara Bjarland

Wall tapestry. Used floor mops, cotton. 305x200cm. In the collection of Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki.   This work deals with the manual labour of cleaning, as well as that of handicraft; undervalued work that is often done by women or marginalized people. This work contains several layers of time; the time spent cleaning […]

  A series of sculptures made with found pieces of bent rebar iron from construction demolishing sites, and bronze casts of twigs. Various dimentions.

  Last Drop, 2021 bronze, 67x140x77cm. In private collection.  

Awake, arise, animate, vegetate, at MUU Gallery was the subsequent chapter of the exhibition Crumple, fail, faint, fall, at Galleri Sinne, where human remnants reflected on a time that has passed. At MUU Gallery the focus shifted to the perspective of non-human sensorial agents re-imagining possible futures without humans. The exhibition consisted of a series of assemblage […]

Solo exhibition at Galleri Sinne, Helsinki, 16.10-15.11.2020 Excerpt from press release: The items and products that we design, manufacture and distribute are often a solution to a problem, or serve as accessories when creating our individual identities. In step with the way our value system, our needs and our behaviour are constantly changing, time also runs […]

Constant Eruptions, solo show at Hopstreet Gallery, Brussels, 12.1-22.2.2020    

 

Groundwork, artist book published by Art Paper Editions, 2019. 17 × 24 cm, 160 p, ills colour, paperback ISBN 9789493146259 text: Hanne Hagenaars design and editing: 6’56” & Sara Bjarland The book can be purchased here. Documented by The Book Photographer.

Post-Blowout, 2019. Installation. Ceramics. Produced during a working period at EKWC, with the generous support of Stichting Stokroos and Vlaamse Overheid.  

 

Work produced during a residency at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin. Installation with found objects, plaster sculptures, photography.

HD video, 30min. Displayed on a 32 inch flatscreen. View excerpt here, please view full screen.

Installation. Plastic plants, acrylic paint, mdf. Dimensions variable. Here installed at Croxhapox, Ghent, 2016.

HD Video, 5 min.  

HD video, 3 min, silent, loop.

Photographic series. Archival inkjet prints, 80x60cm, framed.

Photographic series. Archival inkjet prints, 131x111cm, framed.

Photo series, film and performance in collaboration with Alexandra Duvekot, produced during residency at Kunsthuis SYB. Watch the film here. Anne van Leeuwen wrote a text about the work, read it here. (in Dutch)

Light table with 900 glass slides containing pieces of plastic debris. Dimensions 300x75x20cm.

HD Video, 3 min, silent. The video shows the death struggle of a wasp.

Photographic series. Archival inkjet prints, framed. Sizes 80x65cm and 60x50cm.

Installation. Light table with pieces of found plastic and glass. Dimensions 58x48x80cm.

Super 8mm film transferred to DV. The short film depicts insect life inside a glass veranda on a summer’s day. It is an intimate portrait of the microcosm of a room and a meditation on life, death and the passing of time.

HD video, 4:30min, 16:9, silent. Takeoff is an up-close observation of a damaged butterfly as it tries to take off and fly.

Slide installation. 80 slides containing cut out bubbles from bubble wrap.