Sofia Tolis L'anatomie de ma mère (Study of my mother [sic])

It is always with great excitement you visite Gallery Candyland (Gotlandsgatan). Here you often meet artists who are not so well known and established, but who express themselfs experimentaly and work really seriously and often with no obvious commercial intent. And that's what you can say about Sofia Tolis and her exhibition L'anatomie de ma mère.
Immediately on the left when I enter the gallery I meet a form that resembles the maraccas instrument. But when I look closer, it's two eyes of crochet yarn outtaken from the eye gaps. They stare at me. Close by them hanging from the ceiling a large form that you get the urge to crawl underneath to examine. It has the shape of a human brain made up of crocheted loops that twist in and out next to each other in a complex way. I now find out that the other sculptures in the room are parts of a human beeing. Logical the exhibition has got the name Study of my mother.
The reason why Sofia Tolis have choosed unusual materials as yarn and cloth, and crochet and formed it into sculptures, is that she wants the artworks to have precise that expression. The material, time and the slowness seems to be important components of her creative process. The exhibition, which is personal and odd is carefully done with a sense of warmth and life. Great to see an artist who so prudent and disciplined work through an idea."
Text by Anders Lundmark; Gallery Anders Lundmark blog, 2010