WWIAFM is a craft-based design group with ten members, who all attended Konstfack (Stockholm’s College of Arts, Craft and Design). The group was founded in 2001 and has since orchestrated and partcipated in several exhibitions around Sweden. A common inspiration and motivation for the members of WWIAFM is the desire to broaden the perception of contemporary crafts and expand the way handicraft is treated and shown. Each member harbors a sincere love of their discipline and material at the same time as they regard the field’s traditionally set standards as ›truths‹ that can be modified. WWIAFM wants its work and exhibitions to be seen as a compliment to the offerings of the traditional arts and crafts scene. It’s not about protesting established aesthetic norms, but expanding them. When the group’s members do articulate protests, they are concerned with human behavior patterns and social conventions rather than aeshetics. Past shows have dealt with life issues such as the relatonship between gender and power, nationalism and exoticism and the human control of nature.WWIAFM uses glass and ceramics to comment on the time and world they live in, with the intention of inspiring their viewers to do the same. Through their exhibitions, performances and interactive projects, they highlight the way our values and thought processes are shaped by the objects that surround us.
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