Dagmar Stap uses various embroidery techniques to create sculptures of packaging, such as a pack of instant noodles or a can of coconut milk. Her fascination for packaging started when she walked into an Asian super market, where products await buyers with their bright, illustrative and often loud colors.
The ancient, delicate, Chinese embroidery that are so time-consuming, are a stark contrast to the high-paced, mass-producing China that we know today. This contrast, combined with her fascination for embroidery, inspired her to create this series of work. In her work Dagmar plays with definitions of the valuable and the worthless, of trash and art.
Dagmar’s work is included in the collection of Museum LAM and CODA Museum, among others.
Dagmar Stap returns to her youth with her special embroidery technique. For this exhibition, she made magazine covers for the Hitkrant, Playboy and Privé. The labour-intensive way in which she depicts her subject contrasts sharply with the way in which her subjects are normally produced and discarded. In this way Dagmar plays with definitions of the precious and the worthless.
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Groningen, Netherlands, 1995
Education
2013-2018 Academie Minerva, Groningen
Exhibitions
2020
Galerie Tracanelli, Grenoble, (Fr)
K38, Roden
Van Ostade Biennale, Galerie Fleur en Wouter, Amsterdam
Galerie Tracanelli, Grenoble, (Fr)
2019
Pop Art, Galerie Fleur en Wouter, Amsterdam
City Central, Groningen
Dahmer's Dates & Other Sex Stories, Galerie Fleur & Wouter, Amsterdam
SIgn, Groningen
Untitled, Galerie Fleur & Wouter Amsterdam
2018
This Art Fair, Amsterdam
Pictura, Groningen
Headliners eindexpositie, Groningen
Museum collection
CODA Apeldoorn
LAM Lisse
Publications
2020
TextielPlus, (spread)
Het Parool, (cover)
Palet magazine
2019
Het Parool (POP-ART/Galerie Fleur & Wouter)
AD website (video item)
het Parool (Dahmer’s Dates/ Galerie Fleur & Wouter)
2018
Vice
NRC
Mister Motley
Galerie Fleur & Wouter
Van Ostadestraat 43A, Amsterdam
info@galeriefleurenwouter.com
