Morus Project




Gallery Apoteket, Roma, Gotland

July 2023





Ecdysis, Kleopatra Tsali (2023)

Ecdysis, Kleopatra Tsali (2023), The Lace, Irini Gonou (2023), Visionary poem from the Underworld, Hanna Norrna (2023)

Ecdysis, Kleopatra Tsali (2023)

 Illustrations by Kleopatra Tsali

Ecdysis, Kleopatra Tsali (2023)

The Lace, Irini Gonou (2023)

The Lace, Irini Gonou (2023)

Amulet, Irini Gonou (2022)


Photo: Nikos Antonopoulos On Gotland, plantations of tens of thousands of mulberry trees were established between 1830-1850, on initiative of the Society of Domestic Sericulture. Women of the aristocracy produced silk on their own farms, and a group of women on the edges of society were trained by Elisabeth (Blessell) Kahl, to work within the silkworm-breeding at an institution called Arbetshuset in Visby. The origin of the Gotlandic silk productions leads to the Middle Ages, when the first mulberry trees were brought to the island with monks from southern Europe.

The exhibition Morus, at Galleri Apoteket in Roma Kungsgård, presents a number of individual artworks, as reflections on the themes of metamorphose, moulting, silk mythology and ceremonies of change. Roma Kungsgård is a site where mulberry trees were grown in orangeries during the 18th century. The gallery space used to be a pharmacy, which links the artists to the women who used herbs and threads with medical purposes, and the accusations against them during the witch trials in Visby 1705.


Visionary poem from the Underworld, Hanna Norrna (2023)
Amulet, Irini Gonou (2022)
In Memory, Irini Gonou (2023)






The exhibition and workshops on Gotland were realised with support from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee.  





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