Ingela Ihrman

Ingela Ihrman’s (b. 1985) practice draws on interspecies entanglements, scientific findings, and her personal experiences, feelings and desires.

She critically examines the way humanity simultaneously romanticizes and exploits nature, as if oblivious to our own inseparability from nature’s webs of interdependency.

The artist works in the mediums of sculpture, video, installation, text and performance, often appearing in self-made sculptural costumes, whether as an otter, a frog, a giant Amazonian waterlily or a fig. By donning costumes, she literally slips into the skin of other creatures and explores the limits of her own body.

Ihrman’s works are on display at HAM Helsinki Art Museum. One of them is a giant representation of the herbaceous plant Heracleum mantegazzianum (giant hogweed), and an accompanying erotic short story. Also on view is an installation portraying an amphibian fossil.

The artwork production is supported by the Swedish-Finnish Cultural Foundation.