This year's Nobel Creations are recognized by the Nobel Laureates
Literature Prize winner Han Kang visits the Nobel Creations exhibition
-"This year's Literature Laureate Han Kang was extremely fascinated by how the students had interpreted her work and by the details of the creation, such as the molded hand and the burnt edges of the fabric," says Elin Granberg, exhibition coordinator at the Nobel Prize Museum.
Conceptual interpretation of Han Kang's writing
Adrian Musa and Johannes Söderbäck Kirksaether, the creators of the Literature Prize, have worked conceptually and interpreted what Han Kang has written in his books.
-Han Kang works a lot with pain, both physical and mental pain. We wanted to explore how to communicate that in garments. She is on the verge of being very brutal but at the same time writes in a beautiful and poetic way, and we have always worked on that balance.
Among the details are selected texts from some of the books embedded in the pleated folds, a black, deconstructed jacket reminiscent of a straitjacket as well as broken seams, burnt edges, and a cast hand almost hiding among the folds on one side of the dress.
-In one of her books, Han Kang describes a dead body "swelling like thick pieces of ginger under a cloth". The cast hand is inspired by the piece and here symbolizes death and corporeality in general, Adrian and Johannes say.
The winner's family ordered a variation of this year's Medicine Prize interpretation
When Medical Laureate Gary Ruvkyn and his family visited the exhibition, they were so taken with John Ölén and Jacob Ploski Borgenstierna's creation in black with pleated panels of silk organza and a sweeping organza band, that his daughter, Victoria Ruvkyn, ordered a version of the dress to wear at the Nobel Night Cap after-party.
-Everything went very fast! We had to come to the Grand Hotel where she tried on the original black dress, but together we decided to make a new version in a light blue color. So after fitting, we sewed all Sunday and half of Monday. It feels great that we got the chance to actually dress one of the Nobel Laureate's family in our dress," say John and Jacob.
