Unveiling as Practice
This April, I had the honor of being invited as a guest writer for Tarantula Authors and Art, alongside my friend, the brilliant sculptor Tove Kjellmark. Together, we explored the intimate terrains of body, adolescence, animality, death, and love.
“This month we have two muses, our guest writer Karin Victorin and sculptor Tove Kjellmark. They unveil layers of;
Women. Horses. Adolescence. Body. Death. Love.”
– Tarantula Authors and Art
In our first feature, I interviewed Tove in her studio, where we unraveled her process through sculpture, presence, and becoming. Read the full conversation here:
Unveiling as Practice – Sculpting Layers of Presence
The second piece is an excerpt from a longer chapter I’ve written for Tove’s book Horses, Robots and the Immeasurable — It is an intimate, meandering reflection born from our shared conversations — about horses, the beings we’ve loved, and how their presence (and passing) continues to shape us. The title Chimera Cyborg Creatures refers to the hybrid figure that emerges in the deep intra-action between horse and human — a shared body of movement, memory, and spirit. In this entanglement, boundaries blur: technology, emotion, and myth interlace to form something both ancient and futuristic, tender and strange.
Read the excerpt here: Chimera Cyborg Creatures – An Ode to Dead Horses
Together, these two texts form a dialogic weave of art, transformation, and embodied imagination.
“To unveil is not to expose, but to be in contact — with what moves, what breaks, what pulses beneath the surface.”
This is a part of Unveiling, as practice…
