Name
Marie Holst Lorenzen
Education degree
Master
Subject area
Design
Study programme
Furniture Design - Products, Materials and Contexts
Year
2023
The Apocalypse Tapestry (350 x 140 cm), wool, cotton and viscose.
The Apocalypse Tapestry portrays the current biodiversity crisis. Showing the life and death of 8 endangered butterflies from the IUCN Red List of threatened species the the tapestry examines the notion of apocalypse in our time, and tells the story of a violent and brutal crisis already happening.
The project examines the format of tapestry weaving by translating the traditional craft into the modern digital loom. Working with weaving techniques from industrial weaving the tapestry is woven on a digitally programmed loom.
The Apocalypse Tapestry challenges the historical use of tapestries as a weapon of power and questions which stories to be told.
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The TC2 loom is digitally programmed, but manually operated by hand.
Back side view
The Royal Danish Academy supports the Sustainable Development Goals
Since 2017 the Royal Danish Academy has worked with the Sustainable Development Goals. This is reflected in our research, our teaching and in our students’ projects. This project relates to the following UN goal(-s):
Climate action (13)
Life on land (15)
