© Britta Marakatt-Labba/Bildupphovsrätt 2025
Mátki II
Artist
Britta Marakatt-Labba
(Sverige, född 1951)
Alternate Title
- Färden II
- The Journey II
Date1989/2021
MediumEmbroidery on cotton
DimensionsBildmått: 41,5 × 70 cm
Passepartout: 56,2 × 52,7 cm
Ram: 60,2 × 86,7 × 3,1 cm
ClassificationTextile
Credit LinePurchase 2021 (Swedish Acquisitions 2021)
Countries
On view
StockholmRoomGallery 03:3
Object NumberMOM/2021/111
CollectionsSvenska förvärv 2021
About the artworkIn the wintery mountain landscape portrayed in appliqué with deft stitches, a Laestadian funeral procession approaches the cemetery’s modest crosses. The dead are lain to rest here – the most pious in pale clothes, some under warming rugs. The Voyage II is part of a series of works portraying Britta Marakatt-Labba’s childhood experience of losing her father. Life goes on after death, the five-year-old imagines, with card games, reading and curiosity about everything that happens above, among the still-living. But a ladder down into the open grave leads our eyes to the unimaginable, macabre recent past: skulls stolen for the State Institute for Racial Biology in Uppsala. Marakatt-Labba is a sensitive, multifaceted narrator, whose embroideries, watercolours and installations convey a Sami world of ideas.
Signatures, inscriptions and marks Signerat i nedre höger hörn på framsidan av konstverket: "Britta Marakatt-Labba -1989- -2021-" Selected exhibition history Britta Marakatt-Labba: där varje stygn andas (den 14 juni 2025 - den 9 november 2025) Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Signatures, inscriptions and marks Signerat i nedre höger hörn på framsidan av konstverket: "Britta Marakatt-Labba -1989- -2021-" Selected exhibition history Britta Marakatt-Labba: där varje stygn andas (den 14 juni 2025 - den 9 november 2025) Moderna Museet, Stockholm