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Lunchtime viewing of the exhibition Coded Threads at Skissernas Museum

Konstverk av Amalie Smith, stort nät med små lysande lampor som tillsammans skapar bilder och olika mönster.
Foto: Emma Krantz/Skissernas Museum

The exhibition “Coded Threads” traces threads from the origin of the digital, the woven fabric, into today’s and tomorrow’s digital realities. The loom is the basis of binary coding: the thread can go over or under the warp, be a one or a zero. The thread is coded and acquires meaning – becomes an image, a pattern, a calculation, an algorithm. Everything can become data through the thread in the warp.

Skissernas Museum – Museum of Artistic Process and Public Art are happy to welcome all employees at Lund University to join a guided tour through the exhibition.

The exhibition brings together three artists who work with coded threads in their art in distinct ways. All artists allow the artistic process to expand through self-generating or collective systems.

Amalie Smith shows a suggestive installation with digitally dreamed images. Filipa César follows the intercontinental slave trade and the historical routes of the textile industry. In its wake, she finds woven threads that are coded with resistance. The art group Metahaven’s jacquard-woven textile works, produced on contemporary computerized looms, can be read as fictional maps or systems of thought. For this exhibition, they have created a new work consisting of two parallel weavings alongside moving images. The piece builds on sketches from the museum’s collection.

Several older works from the collection also find their place in the exhibition, forming an inner processing room, a memory center with possible connections that branch out into the contemporary parts of the exhibition.

Lunch showings

Takes approximately 30 minutes

Tuesday, 21 April at 12:00 – Swedish
Wednesday, 22 April at 12:00 – English
Friday, 24 April at 12:00 – Swedish

Preregistration required: Register via Biletto

The guided tour starts in the exhibition on floor 2 at the set time. Please arrive in time to register and find the right gallery.

Feel free to combine your visit with a lunch at the Museum’s popular restaurant, På Skissernas. We recommend booking a table in advance.

As an employee of Lund University, you are always entitled to free admission to Skissernas Museum upon presentation of your LU card. Coded Threads is shown at Skissernas Museum 4 December 2025–3 May 2026.