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Silja’s work draws on narratives constructed around culture and anthropology.
They are poetic experiments, combining hints and traces into solid form.
Exploring textiles as a reference to the social body,
she is about defining cultural territory,
which is both material, socially and politically constructed.
The work covers themes around the politics of the body,
identity and power; it explores how these are shaped by
discourse and social structureand refracted by categories
such as class and gender, conformity and individuality.

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Silja’s paintings reflect a deep interest in the medium’s outer limits.
Exploring the void and narrating the invisible, is what interest her the most.
It is not about forms or materials, but rather about ideas and meanings.
How a painting can be self-reflexive and non-illusionistic yet still connected
with external points of reference.
Black —perhaps contains soul precisely in it’s void of colour.
Its varnished surface reflects a transitory space with a polished gesture,
owing as much in relation to its surroundings as it does to its sublime depth.
Words; they come to be read as shapes.

As both a two-dimensional object and an abstract signifier,
the word is both subject and image.