"Uncut forest diamonds tell about the secrets of the forest"

The return of the Vrilars - so is the artist Aia Jüde's exhibition, which goes on during Stockholm design week.

- Vrilar is a tree tuber that grows on some trees where the wood fibers grow in different directions, which creates a very strong wood that has been used since the Viking Age. But it also forms really cool forms that you can work with, says Aia Jüdes.

The fact that the exhibition is called Vrilarna's return does not mean that the Vrilarna have been gone in the true sense, however, they may have ended up in the cloud.

- You may not think so much about this ugly lump, but it is absolutely fantastic. For me, this is like uncut forest diamonds that, with the right touch, can start glittering wonderfully and tell you about the secrets of the forest, says Aia Jüdes.

In the same way that it is not entirely obvious to show fights during Stockholm design week, Aia Jüdes works with contrasts in material. Her brilliant sculptures include everything from turned wood to car paint, freshwater pearls and brass. For Jüdes, the material and color clash is a way of spreading interest in the craft of younger people.

- Then maybe new target groups think "damn this was pretty cool," she says.

Another designer who moves around the border for what design really is, is Cathrine Disney. During the design week, she is up to date with a performance that questions the colonization of March.

- They claim that it is humanity's idea to colonize another planet but is it humanity's idea or is it another powerful white man's idea? And what does that mean for the rest of humanity ?, she says.

According to Culture News' art critic Dennis Dahlqvist, the cross-border trend has become something that has become stronger and stronger over the past decade.

- When it comes to Aia Jüdes, it is a cross-border between craft and industrial design and when it comes to Cathrine Disney it is between art and design. Disney does a performance, and that's something we usually associate with art, he says.

- It's basically a power relationship. You want to get rid of earlier hierarchies that art was finer than design and that industrial design was finer than crafts, so these shifts are rather power political.