"You have to see Malin Lager’s artwork to believe and appreciate them. The Swedish artist uses neither paint nor brush. Her medium of choice is the sewing machine. But her works are so compelling that your mind assumes they are paintings. Until you look closely. The layers of cloth are invisible under the intricate, vibrant needlework of her machine. The grasses take on a realistic texture and the long, delicate stems seem to sway in the wind." (Exerpt from Monterey Herald, June 5, 2014) http://www.malinlager.se/malinlager.se/Reviews.html "....This exhibition reaches heights that are - I can’t find a better word - ‘sublime’. Especially dazzling is a suite of impressionistic pieces on the worn down cobblestones of Venice. Pictures that from some feet away appear commonplace studies of reflected light, upon coming closer dissolve into a tangle of tiny stitches. All of a sudden they appear as something else, like a pressure chamber of slowly recovered time. This art hits you like a bolt of lightning. Something thorough, unique and highly sensual. A weakness in my knees, a tunnel looking toward the unknown...... Dan Jönsson (Exerpt from Dagens Nyheter, Maj 31, 2003) http://www.malinlager.se/malinlager.se/Reviews.html "The Beginning and the End in Needle and Thread. ...In a room at the Textile Museum time stands still. The artist Malin Lager’s pieces entitled “Birth and Death - Both a Birth” create a tension that breathes sanctity. Malin Lager has skillfully captured this feeling in two large pictures in a specially prepared room at the museum. The room is simple, sacramental and, together with some other objects that touch on the same theme, these works provide a superb example of what contemporary art can bring to the eternal questions... Barbro Matsols (Exerpt from Kyrkans Tidning, 2005) http://www.malinlager.se/malinlager.se/Reviews.html undefined

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