Lola Pedersen

Lola-Rose Pedersen (b. 1999, Montpellier) is an artist working from a foundation in craft: embroidery, collage and drawing. She examines the construction of systems and how places are shaped by circulation: what is discarded, emergent, repeating and in suspension between the values of usefulness and redundancy. To throw away, to put someone away, to look away. In the practice, “away” becomes a political fiction, a logistical convenience and a misdirection of attention. Across urban commons, the internet and sites beyond permission, she moves as observer/ gleaner/participant, entering and exiting environments through provisional and sometimes illicit forms of encounter. Pedersen questions what agency we have within domestic institutional spaces, how we meet them in a limited temporality, in tenuous belonging and contested property rights/ownership/legitimation.  Hands, mouths and possessions of strangers appear as incomplete data: gathered, organised and archived in arrangements that fall short of the expectations of a dataset.   Hyper-aesthetic motifs sit alongside materials recognisable as trash. The formation of value arrives by dedicated occupational labour informed by historical liberatory practices. The work exists as a set of proposals and mechanisms for attending to what is made marginal, asking how things (objects, people, worldviews) might hold entanglements beyond mapping.

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