Ane Graff (b. 1974, Bodø, Norway) lives and works in Oslo, Norway. In her recent works, the scientific research on natural forms opens up for tracing memory within matter. Graff’s investigation on the nature of matter is carried out through an examination of the processes of change, becoming, mutation, interaction and transformation. All these processes impress matter with the forms of memory, simultaneously materialising the material’s persistence and its continuous changes. Starting from an analytic approach, the abstraction within her work is the result of a process where matter itself is transformed and decayed. Graff’s textile works are printed and treated through different processes that leave traces in the modified textile and faded motives.
Graff’s approach to matter is inspired by feminist science scholar and quantum physicist Karen Barad’s words: “Matter is a substance in its iterative, interactive becoming, not a thing, but a doing, a congealing of the agency. It is morphologically active, responsive, generative, articulate and alive.”
