ASSOCIATIONS
Capturing and freezing an interpersonal moment of becoming
Transferring the energy of an idea into a sketch, a fleeting moment into a frozen state. A human expression in an industrial context. An impulse of processing in one material translated into another. A dialogue between spontaneity, precision, intuition, and control.
In her new project, "Associations", Willner explores the seemingly simple: torn strips and ripped holes. But these spontaneous actions become more than they initially seem. Together, they form playful objects - a table, a partition, a stool, a lamp - cut out both in and out of their own context.
The project is a collage of assembled ideas and references: a holiday photo of a torn strip on protective film on a window in Albania, the playful world of paper dolls, A-ha's iconic Take On Me video, Fontana's slashed canvases, Tord Boontje's intricate cut-out designs, Willner's own laser-cut shelves, surrealist worlds, and fragments from the writings of martin Buber.
The result is a tension between the malleable and the fixed, between the temporary and the permanent - where each object captures a gesture, an idea, a moment that has now become permanent.