Where someone may see opposition, Kristine Stattin Find suitable companions. Working in her studio in the Occitanie region in South France, the artist alternates between hand and machinery while they lay long, wiping lines and small, witnessed French knots. The contrasts create tension and intrigues and ensure that Stattin is not too comfortable with a mode.
“My work is all about the process, being and surrendering to the moment, embracing the unknown, not being attached to results and expectations and bringing the threads to life,” she says.
Buried in color and texture, the abstract embroidery of Stattin movement and energy evoke through different layers of thin, sewing wire that stitched on top of each other. There is tension between orderly rows and chaotic smatten. “Every new piece is an internal journey, a kind of enigma that requires to be resolved, and I use the needle and threads to capture a feeling, movement and life itself,” she shares.
Occasionally, Appliqué, screenshot prints and acrylic-rejected details appear in its pieces and decisions to include new materials are part of an instinctive process led by the work itself. Color is similar, with combinations of pastel shades and daring, saturated pallets derived from nature, the environment of the artist, or even the way in which sewing wire falls on her table.
“I am interested in an intuitive, yet conscious process, to see where the threads will bring me, to see and respond to what is happening and to work with final mistakes,” she says. “I embrace those mistakes because they often lead to new ideas that I bring in future work.”
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