Alva Roselius is an artist and scenographer working with language and spatiality. Informed by architecture and theater and inspired by phenomenology, queer theory and political movements, her works revolve around power, desire and normality.
They circle around an ambivalent longing for alternatives, resistance and closeness. But also a longing for respite, to not have to resist. Alva is educated at Konstfack in Stockholm and UMPRUM in Prague. Besides her artistic practice she writes for Flamman and Arbetaren.
The silvery embroidery is a shape, map or a non-animal skin. It carries references to craftsmanship and manual labor at the same time as it is almost alien. The work has been inspired by maps and topography as well as science fiction and queer abstraction.
