Klara Eriksson

My experience of silver is that it holds many colors, in surfaces that can be matte, shiny, flat, or hammered, it directly answers to its surroundings and what it contains. Silver is also heavier than steel.

Silver has a transparency that makes it generous to what it carries and offers. How it mirror reflection, heat and cold. I declare that silver is more transparent than glass.

How does corpus work in a daily context? - Great, use your silverware frequently, at least a couple of times a week. This way you do not have to clean it. A silver bowl lasts for several generations and if it gets dented it's easy to repair it. Owning everyday corpses is to think long-term.

Can the discussion be moved away from what silver has for material / monetary value? I am absolutely convinced that it is possible by activating the corpus. Create relations where the silver share its qualities, as material. In different contexts where, for example, the table and the bar are a natural place.

In this way, Corpus gives new experiences that are placed contemporary  and not linked to older social rules.

In addition, to talk about what a value is, to encourage all the senses of attendance and experience. It's a satisfactory and for me an all-natural development for crafts and the material that is my expression. 

Name of art work: 

” Who is the sharpest knife in the drawer?” 

Thoughts about the art work: 

In our everyday life, the meal with socializing where you talk to each other and do together. An increasingly important area to give attention

               The knife, in form mimicking the butcher knife has no edge in this case. Whom has cut the meet for the dinner? Who made the dinner and what is the taste? The beauty of a curve in a tool, a symbol for non-efficiency. 

About the artist –

Klara Eriksson holds a BFA and MFA in Metal Design, Konstfack – University, Collage of Arts Crafts & Design. She has completed a post graduate Research Project `Corpus in Contemporary Society´ at Ädellab, Konstfack. The Corpus project was principal to Klara’s development as a contemporary Maker and led to her receiving the prestigious Design S award.

Klara is a founding member of the Stockholm based metal hub LOD Galley, Workshop and Atelier.

She is a Silversmith represented at the Swedish National Gallery, Röhsska Museum of Design and Craft, Statens Konstråd-Public Art Agency, and Private collections.  

Klara Eriksson exhibits nationally in Sweden as well as Internationally.