<p>Ikon presents the first UK exhibition by renowned Sámi (Swedish) artist Britta Marakatt-Labba, introduced here by curator of the exhibition Jan-Erik Lundström and featuring an interview with Marakatt-Labba, who discusses the themes within her work.</p>

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Ikon presents the first UK exhibition by renowned Su00e1mi (Swedish) artist Britta Marakatt-Labba.nnUnder the Vast Sky features embroidered pieces by Marakatt-Labba for which she is best known, including panoramas chronicling the history, culture and cosmology of the Su00e1mi, the Indigenous population of the northernmost parts of Scandinavia. These are combined with other art forms to demonstrate the wide range of her practice. Her work overall strikes a balance between the vernacular, the domestic, the intimacy of daily life, and urgent issues of our time such as climate change and terrorism.nnBritta Marakatt-Labba is above all a storyteller. For over four decades she has produced work centred on u201can enduring and unending articulation, endorsement and dissemination of Su00e1mi culture u2013 past, present, and future, vernacular, spiritual, material. The ability to affirm, pronounce, tell, share and advocate this heritage and its ongoing transformations, and still acknowledge the colonial wounds and confront centuries of oppression.u201d Jan-Erik Lundstru00f6m, curator, Under the Vast SkynnThe exhibition is curated by Jan-Erik Lundstru00f6m, former director of the Su00e1mi Center for Contemporary Art, Karasjok, Norway, and Bildmuseet, Sweden, with Jonathan Watkins, Ikon Director.

Britta Marakatt-Labba: Under the Vast Sky

Exhibitions

Ikon presents the first UK exhibition by renowned Sámi (Swedish) artist Britta Marakatt-Labba, introduced here by curator of the exhibition Jan-Erik Lundström and featuring an interview with Marakatt-Labba, who discusses the themes within her work.

Britta Marakatt-Labba: Under the Vast Sky

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