Pocket History (2026)
Teknikk: monotype and hand colouring on found book cover
Dimensjon: 20,5 cm x 16 cm x 3 cm (inkl. ramme)
Pris: etter avtale
Teknikk: monotype and hand colouring on found book cover
Dimensjon: 20,5 cm x 16 cm x 3 cm (inkl. ramme)
Pris: etter avtale
I found this tiny, disintegrating book of Norwegian psalms from 1891 in a second-hand shop opposite Rogaland Kunstsenter. Fragile and worn, it carries the quiet evidence of long use. The cover is marked by handling and movement—perhaps shaped by years spent in someone’s pocket while passing through the surrounding streets.
I read these marks as traces of lived time: a surface slowly formed through touch, proximity, and repetition.
I respond to its history by enhancing its outer landscape, allowing wear, erosion, and stain to guide my intervention. The book becomes a threshold—an object that opens onto a past life in a once-familiar neighborhood, now altered by time. In this way, it functions as a small gateway between what remains and what has disappeared, holding memory through its material presence
I read these marks as traces of lived time: a surface slowly formed through touch, proximity, and repetition.
I respond to its history by enhancing its outer landscape, allowing wear, erosion, and stain to guide my intervention. The book becomes a threshold—an object that opens onto a past life in a once-familiar neighborhood, now altered by time. In this way, it functions as a small gateway between what remains and what has disappeared, holding memory through its material presence
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Born in The Netherlands, Pieper studied at the Royal College of Art in The Hague, the Netherlands and the Norfolk Institute of Fine Art in the UK. She works with printmaking, collage, installation and painting. She has lived and worked in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the US. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions, and is included in public and private collections. Currently she lives and works in Stavanger, Norway.
Pieper’s work is inspired by being in the landscape and explores how physical wandering can lead to mental wandering. Her practice moves within this in-between space, focusing on the relationship between outer and inner landscapes, and how each shapes and influences the other. Books carried from past to present are recurring companions in her work and play a central role, whether through their narratives, poetry, or physical presence as objects. She views them as bridges between inner and outer worlds: catalysts for imagination, tools for self-reflection, and spaces of escape beyond her own mind.
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