H&M Stories by Katrine Meisfjord, KODE 1, Bergen
Norwegian Crafts yearly thematic exhibition. They have invited the curator Juan A. Gaitán, whom invites us to a discuss "the geographies of material labor and production".
Katrine Meisfjord has collected stories from people in Bergen, on the common theme H&M. She has involved people with origin from different countries and continents, thus collecting varied stories, e.g. how students in Indonesia gathered 70 000 industry workers in protest marches in 1997...
a story from the Soviet embassy in Oslo in 1969, where the storyteller showed up in a slim fit, leopard patterned H&M dress...
how illiterate people in Bangladesh prefer jobs in textile industry to housekeeping jobs...
See through leopard patterned H&M dress worn to party at Soviet embassy in Oslo in 1969, by Ragnhild
Sveinung whom escorted his girlfriend to the party at Soviet embassy in Oslo in 1969. He tells us about his engagement in the Norwegian Communist Party at that time.
Shahnaz shows us the clothes she bought for her family in Dacca, Bangladesh, on going back for a visit. All of the clothes are from H&M, and most of them produced in Bangladesh.
Frode, employee at KODE, tells the story about how he as a young man had a summer job at a H&M storage warehouse. One day a boss showed up, and informed them it was a jubileum, and that they could have 30 minutes extra lunch. They all got a vase with a H&M logo.