© Anne Margrete Bergh 2026
Mercy - silk flag mounted on a metal flag rod
flag size: 74cm X 104cm
- 2024
Stitching tiny and delicate stiches around the edges of the soft silk fabric by hand was like a meditation. My thoughts wandered with my hands against the silk. I thought about Marie Antoinette. This could have been her undergarment. Pure and soft silk against her soft skin. I thought about how lonely and vulnerable she must have been in her elevated position. So exposed to projections of hatred from the crowds when revolution came. Then I thought about Mette Marit, our own queen to be, and then I thought about all the rest of us. This flag is a prayer of Mercy; - for the queens among us - for every indivdual victim of all sorts of terror - and for all the rest of us. We could all do with a bit of mercy now. - photo Ida Maria Bergh
Blue silk journey
sculpture in two pieces - silk and oak
lenght woodpiece: ca.120cm
- Sussex 1996
The two pieces were attached to an oak tree and to the ground by invisible nylon wires. The wooden piece stood still in the air with very subtle movements, while the silk piece moved joyfully in the wind.
The installation was up for about a week
in a landscape in East Sussex, England.
- photo David Chivers
I was interested in
ephemeral art works that was not made to last. You could call these sculptural paintings, material performance in landscape, site specific art or landart.
Mercy - silk flag 2024 top of this page differs from these by being made as a lasting, singular piece, as an artefact, that can be mounted repetedly in various places indoors or outdoors.
Silk in Wales
Three silk pieces mounted in a triangular formation on a hill.
- Wales 1996.
This was my contribution to a landart workshop with the british sculptor David Nash, who has a studio in Wales.
As a sculpture student at that time, I participated in a few of David Nash's own projects as well as workshops together with other sculpture students.
I brought white silk in three different qualities with me to Wales and dyed it in colours that I chose on the spot.
Each piece was made from silk fabric in three different colours and mounted on metal wire. Then attached to the trees and to the ground by invisble nylon wires. The wind played lively with the delicate silk pieces.
This installation was created as a response to how the wealsh landscape, people and culture appeared to me.
The installation was up for one day only. - photo David Chivers
This way of working with materials is reflected in later works, such as: final project 1998, guns and 13 statements 2009, later performance works and live with it 2001- 2011.
Mercy - silk flag 2024 differs from these by being made as a lasting, singular piece, as an artefact, that can be mounted repetedly in various places indoors or outdoors. See image on top of this page
