Linnéa Ekelöf, is a Swedish multidisciplinary artist currently based in Barcelona, working across sculpture, installation, and jewelry. She explores materials like glass, metal, bioplastic, and natural matter to create fragile structures that sit between craft and technology. Her work often echoes natural cycles and reflects on tension, vulnerability, and transformation.
Her practice investigates how fragile, organic materials, often shaped by water, can be transformed into objects that hold memory, tension, and care. She is drawn to what the lake leaves behind: broken shells, fragments, debris, and stories. She is interested in how these place bound objects can act as vessels for transformation and resilience.
“WaveWorn” is a small-scale collection within a Lakescape project. It is collection of wearable objects made from lake-washed shells and other naturally discarded shoreline materials, joined and shaped using soft soldering. The collection explores how we might live in closer dialogue with the ecosystems around us, by listening, by scavenging with care, and by honoring what’s already been shaped by nature. Each piece is holding space for vulnerability, transformation, and repair.
Linnea uses the Tiffany technique, a soft soldering method with lead-free tin and silver, to join delicate, water-worn materials without covering their raw, natural surfaces. I’ll responsibly collect shells, debris, and fragments from the shoreline, letting these elements become both my medium and my message in a subtle act of care. Soldering sometimes feels like repairing, other times, like building armor, where the metal doesn’t just hold things together, it shelters, strengthens, and protects.
