Johanna Zellmer

In 2019, upon invitation, I became a grant holder of Sweden’s esteemed IASPIS programme and spent three months in residency at Konstepidemin in Gothenburg. This enabled me to push my experimentation with Illumina flow cells further. Now, steel pins, initially used as tools to secure multiple slides during a firing, became integral to the work. The emerging work was reminiscent of unknown primal species, with legs and tentacles of carbonised steel.