Lunds konsthall opens large retrospective of the work of Britta Marakatt
(Artdaily.org)

Lunds konsthall is presenting Britta Marakatt-Labba: History in Stitches. This is the first large retrospective south of the Sami lands of the prominent artist’s oeuvre: unique, idiosyncratic and—encouragingly—more appreciated than ever. Many art professionals discovered Marakatt-Labba’s captivating narrative and visual skills only at documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel last year. They were duly impressed and touched by the 24 metre-long Historjá (History, also known as the Tromsø Frieze), permanently installed in the Light Atrium of the University of Tromsø, the northernmost university in the world. At Lunds konsthall the exhibition features a reproduction of this work, which may be called a contemporary history painting (although it is embroidered, and although it is based on oral tradition rather than on recorded knowledge). Just like those 18th- and 19th-century tableaux of coronations, military bravado and o