The interplay between form and materiality lies at the heart of Hanne Friis’ artistic practice, where sensibility, and the language of color play a vital role. While her background includes sculpture and painting, the Norwegian artist has embraced textile as her primary medium. Through a distinctive folding and seaming technique, Friis sculpts textiles by hand using a needle and nylon thread, transforming loose materials into dense forms. This time-consuming process allows her to enter a ‘stream of consciousness’, where thoughts and energies flow between the material and myself. The resulting organic, abstract shapes are intricate and associative, forming what Friis calls soft sculptures. Hanne Friis works with both organic and synthetic materials, from wool, cotton, silk velvet, and viscose to plastics. Some pieces are made with natural-dyed textiles, creating muted tones, while other textiles are dyed with synthetic pigments in vibrant colours. The transformation of textile - from flexible surface to dense, sculptural form - creates a material ambiguity that intrigues the artist. The spiral shapes, craters, folds and protrusions in her sculptures suggest connections to internal and external elements of our bodies, nature, and geology, viewed from a micro and macro perspective.