Britta Marakatt-Labba

While the act of piercing fabric with a needle may seem slight, it has the capacity to create great strength.

- Amanda Hakoköngäs

Kin Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiruna, Sweden

Sámi artist Britta Marakatt-Labba's embroideries on white linen interweave ancient mythologies and arctic landscapes to depict colonial tensions between the nation-state and Indigenous culture. Her retrospective at Kin Museum of Contemporary Art in Kiruna, which includes more than 70 works spanning from the 1970s to the present day, marks Marakatt-Labba's first large-scale retrospective in Sweden. Having opened last year at the National Museum in Oslo, the show will tour to Moderna Museet in Stockholm this summer.