Lisa Salvall
My degree project is a study of the basic building components of the walls surrounding us and their construction that we never see. What we do see is a clean cover that tries to act anonymously. But our walls are all but anonymous. They are built with a structure making them stand tall and strong. They are filled with insulation to keep us warm and sheltered. They are hard and they are soft. They can allow us to isolate from each other or they are fragile enough to reveal that someone is on the other side. They cover the basic necessities of our houses, and we in return cover them to make our spaces less anonymous.
There Is Softness Hidden in Your Walls mainly aims to highlight the textile components of architecture since these are usually hidden. While we tend to view textile mostly as decoration it constantly performs in a lot of various ways all around us.