Dec. 13 and 14, Hannah Blom exhibits at the gallery with spatial work made of iron.

Hannah Blom makes three-dimensional drawings in iron.

From her studio, Hannah overlooks a strip of forest. She often looks musingly at the chaos that nature seems to form. The trees, rising upright, seem to give structure to the whole.In her work, she searches for balance between chaos and order. A work emerges as a seemingly accidental stacking or arrangement of forms, which she could not have imagined. She is more concerned with the space the image creates than the space the image occupies.

As the daughter of an architect, she often had to help her father paste and cut models. For example, she cut twigs from the neighbor’s hedge that acted as trees. Her father also took her to see structures under construction. Especially the spaces that were not finished she loved. For example, a hole in the floor where later a staircase came or rafters running through an empty space. She also made extensive photo series of these. This had a great influence on her work.

In the past, Hannah has been a general physician. In digestion, you see that food is first broken down into pieces after which it is rebuilt in our intestines into new building blocks that the body needs. So she first cuts old and new metal into pieces or cuts it with the plasma cutter. She later forms her works with these. The jagged edges give an exciting playfulness to the work. The imperfection that results gives an opportunity for a dialogue with the work. Perfection is of no interest to her.

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