Annie Lindblad

Inspired by the Voyager probes’ golden greetings to the cosmos, this work revolves around the question of who we are when we speak as a ‘we’. The messages that were once sent out into space carry a carefully composed image of humankind – polished, simplified and filled with a longing to be understood.

By combining textile weaving with QR codes as contemporary information carriers, the work moves between the analogue and the digital, the tactile and the immaterial. The woven surface functions as a physical code, in which the observer can activate the work by scanning and thereby accessing digital content.

In this encounter, a shift occurs between material and information, body and technology. The work reflects on how we store, translate and convey memories and identities in a time characterised by digital reproducibility. The motifs activated through the code take inspiration from our contemporary digital experiences and carry a nostalgic charge.

The work can be regarded both as a closed object and as a portal – a passage between different ways of reading, interpreting and understanding the world.