Acaye Kerunen’s Interweaving Threads

Through her multidisciplinary practice, Acaye Kerunen seeks to dismantle the hierarchies of fine art and craft, elevating women’s labor within socio-political systems. Her mutable, expansive installations—for which materiality is a central component—can be understood as living artworks. Ahead of her Pace debut at our 2022 Frieze London booth, Kerunen spoke from her London studio about the influence of craft on her practice and how her work embodies rich artistic legacies originating in Africa’s Great Lakes region.