Tronhjem Rømer is a duo of textile designers and craftswomen, Trine Tronhjem (b. 1991) and Liv Marie Rømer (b. 1991), whose practice is grounded in the craft of textile printing. Through the interplay of colour, material, and light, they create atmospheric, sensory experiences, holding that textile, pattern, and ornament carry a distinct spatial potential that is often overlooked. Their work insists that textile can constitute space, and at the scale they work, colour and pattern become structural.
Gottfried Semper made the same case in the 1860s, arguing that the wall descends from the woven hanging and that architecture's first act of enclosure was textile before it was masonry: a lineage in which cloth is the original spatial material and the solid wall its later substitute. Tronhjem Rømer work that argument in the present. Colour Occurrence is hand-printed on wool with reactive dyes and is dimensioned to the room that receives it. Bed Crown returns to the ciel de lit, the canopy that made a bed into a room of its own, printed on silk and held by magnets. In the Lumi lights and in Lighting Layers, made with Anna Søgaard, colour arrives as projected light, and the surface is dispensed with entirely. Across these works, the duo occupy the threshold between surface and atmosphere, where a hand- or digitally printed textile, with diligently designed patterns, begins to make the space.