Titel: "Woman in Blanket" from the exhibition "working with Schiele" 2018.
Statement
I neither draw nor paint my works, rather I see my sewing thread as a fragile pencil from which little stories sometimes originate. I have a affinity for the less than glamorous ones. My approach to image work is curiosity, both for the medium, materials and the deviation from the norms. At the same time I’m also deeply curious about what may emerge from the depths. Sometimes it all ends in an altercation, but the pictures that emerge from it are often the most rewarding. For me. Especially when works of art become visual conduits for emotions, both the ones that nurture but not least the ones that sting.
My work draws inspiration from fragments of daily life – people, contexts, narratives, materials, texts, and even the process of image making itself. In the majority of my works, these fragments are drawn
together to produce a single motif within an overarching theme. It is usually tiny impressions,
comments, and stories – those that sit a little uneasily within me, or those that stay a little longer with me than initially anticipated – that become the starting point for the dialogue within my works. For me, the material elements and the story I tell through a work are intrinsically interlinked. Often, I imbue the material elements, down to the tiniest scrap of paper or fabric, with a story in their own right, to validate that position as a fragment of the final narrative.
Statements from others
Original text: Uri Duvald Andersen. President of GoodGood agency
Translation: Brian Vandenberg
From the book “101 kunstnere” 2016
For danish tekst click here
Ditte Sørensen aka Madstitch is one of those people you hardly forget. Her art as well as her personality are expressive and unique. This unpolished and sensual composition comes to life in Ditte’s images, which she creates on an old sewing machine. It often requires full immersion into
Ditte’s creations to realize the full scale of her talent.
Since Ditte’s education at the Danish Handcraft Guild in 2011 she’s had a comprehensive production of both custom assignments and her own art pieces displayed at various exhibitions. She’s 38yo,
originally from Jutland, but after a few years in Madrid and Hamburg where she met her husband, Ditte now resides in Copenhagen. After her formal education she apprenticed with textile artist Charlotte Yde, where Ditte discovered her passion for textile art, which subsequently became her
trademark.
Ditte Sørensen’s style is experimental with an exceptional eye for materials and details. Her talent for the elusive and feminine particularly comes to life in subtle and often humorous ways. Always daring and telling a story, Ditte creates art no one’s ever seen before. Her technique is freehand embroidery on a sewing machine, performed on textiles, paper and water dissoluble fabric. Often she even incorporates audio into her pieces. Ditte’s art tells not only a story about its content, but also about its creation and its materials. Behind its porous structures and strings hides a rawness, that unfolds the same way as when Ditte tells the story about her thoughts behind it. The process is often chaotic and embossed with conscious errors where the process takes over. The result however is never coincidental. It is intensely driven by sublime craftsmanship and perfectionism to the most
minuscule details. Ditte remits stories and she’s not afraid of adopting herself into her art. In fact she creates her art for her own fulfillment, she says. Denmark and the Danish culture has been a recurring theme for Ditte, and her H. C. Andersen illustrations have reached as far as China. Through the years she’s received outstanding recognition for her art, which has been displayed at prominent places such as Trapholt and the H.C Andersen museum. She appears in numerous selective books and articles about contemporary Danish art, where she’s featured as a modern and innovative textile artist with flair and talent for creating enriching stories and imagery. Truth is, this is likely the real person behind Madstitch; A woman with a unique and fragile story, with a daring and uncompromising approach to her art and delivery
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