Watch artist Yngvild Saeter speak on her near-death experience in this exclusive Vogue Scandinavia film

“In 2017 I died on the surgery table while having brain surgery,” artist Yngvild Saeter recalls in the video below for Vogue Scandinavia. “And for me dying was an amazing experience. I remember it clearly, I felt complete in every way; completely safe, completely happy.”

In the film, we tour the home and workshop of the Stockholm-based artist, who is known for her sculptures of warped metal, horns and chains, giving way to a twisted beauty.

She explains how her whole artistic practice is summed up by the shapes she saw when she flatlined. “I saw these shapes and these shapes have haunted me in the best way possible," she says. "I repeat the shape. I’m obsessed with them. I need them. I need to work with them.”

Saeter’s materials span the hard and soft, where the artist will often flit between sheep fur and horse gea and studs, chains and piercings.

“I use materials that bring me some kind of sense of safety,” she explains. “I grew up on a farm where we had horses and sheep. We still have a couple of sheep on the farm – we don’t kill them for food. When they get old and die of age or illness, I use the furs from those sheep.”

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