The quilts are part of an ongoing work starting in 2019, provoked by a stay on the Lista peninsula with the local husflidslag. The habit of harvesting and plant dyeing has followed Åtland since, and together the quilts make up several thousand colored squares, sewn together by hand. The exhibition at Galleri Kronborg constitutes one of the two quilts.

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"Two quilts take on the landscape of Rundemanen, to color with the associated fauna. Throughout the summer I have collected species around Galleri Kronborg. Lichens, moss and fungi are used through various methods with the aim of coloring textile. Fabric is treated through several repetitions of plant dyeing, torn into squares, and sewn together again. In an apparently desolate landscape, you can find lichens that color tones of red. The exhibition presents a textile work colored with 'knappskjold', and hints of brunt 'fargelav'. I rehearse an iterative process of making, a woven work where coloured surfaces are presented on their own, and next to the other."

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Materials: cotton textile, waxed flax thread.

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Ingeborg Katie Åtland is a Bergen-based architect, educated at the Bergen School of Architecture, AHO (School of Architecture and Design, Oslo) and FAU (School of Architecture and Urbanism, São Paulo). She runs an architecture and interdisciplinary art practice encompassing scenography, crafts, projections, textiles, and text. Aatland's practice is focused on the making and dissemination of space. Recent and upcoming exhibitions include Studio K and TOU Scene in Stavanger, Malthouse theatre in Melbourne, and Galleri Kronborg in Bergen.