Thoughtful Intentions
Evelina Björnqvist is a material-based designer, artist, and woodworker. Navigating between conceptual design and craft, her practice revolves around sensorial interaction and the symbolic meaning of everyday objects - often taking a starting point in its relation to body and movement. With a scenographic approach, she is interested in how objects and spatial contexts can interact to build layers of perception. The correlation between color and materiality informs her process as well as the final result, which can be a functional or non-functional piece or installation.
Ida Kjällquist is a dancer, choreographer and producer. Her methods are inspired by the philosophy within GAGA and originate in improvisation, in the unexpected, the unexplored - to constantly challenge one's ingrained impulses for movement and to visit unknown places in the body. She works with an interest in form, speed and connecting effort with pleasure. In her later dance projects, she has investigated the choreographic potential of everyday movements in relation to objects, tactility and imaginary spaces. In the role of choreographer, in close dialogue with the intimacy coordinator, director and actor, she has recently worked in art film with a focus on nudity, intimacy and boundary setting.