Swedish translation below
Let it Lead is a film that the filmmaker Caio Simbula recently made about me and my fascination with the organism slimemold (Physarum polycephalum).
In recent years, the Swedish artist Annelie Wallin has developed a fascinating collaboration with the organism slime mold (Physarum polycephalum), which she explores through video, photography, and installations. Her work with these creatures is about more than just observation; it is an artistic investigation into intelligence, networks, and the boundary between control and chance.
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Annelie Wallin is a Stockholm-based artist working across sculpture, video, and participatory installations. Her practice explores time, labor, and value hierarchies, often using materials—such as biological slime molds—as co-creators. By setting specific premises for both organisms and humans, she investigates the interplay between freedom, control, and the transformation of space.”
Wallin works with drawing, sculpture, photography, and video. She is interested in processes where art becomes a means to explore time, labor, value hierarchies, and established notions— using art as a method to dissolve and merge these into new formations and positions.
She often wants materials to create conditions to which one must relate, in the same way that she can create the conditions for a participatory and process-based work. By establishing certain premises, Wallin invite others to act within them, as seen in the work ‘Gistnande’ or when she enticed a slime mold to spell a certain message like ‘Hello World’.
Wallin regularly hold solo exhibitions at IDI:galleri. She creates outdoor participatory and process based art installations and also work with public art commissions. Since 2015, She has worked with slime molds through photography and video, studying them and drawing inspiration from their essence and expression. She has sought to capture their movement in drawings and sculptures, particularly in the exhibition ‘In Motion’ (I rörelse) in 2021.
Let it Lead är en film som filmskaparen Caio Simbula nyligen gjorde om mig och min fascination av organismen slemsvamp (Physarum polycephalum).
Den svenska konstnären Annelie Wallin har under senare år skapat ett fascinerande samarbete med organismen slemsvamp (Physarum polycephalum), vilket hon utforskar genom video, fotografi och installationer. Hennes arbete med dessa varelser handlar om mer än bara observation; det är en konstnärlig undersökning av intelligens, nätverk och gränslandet mellan kontroll och slump.
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