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Blast from the past 🏛️…

“579m2 or 0,061m3 or 1m Pile of Unwritten Writings” 2005

An undefined number of sheets of common copy or printer paper are stacked up to the height of a meter. The edges are uniformly aligned, forming an upright cube that simultaneously recalls associations with an
empty pedestal in the exhibition space. The stack is positioned on top of a rectangular, solid black medium density fiberboard resting on the floor. The work illustrates an important recurring motif in Pernille Kapper
Williams’ work, which consists in the impulse to evoke images of potential acts or connections whose communicative effects are realized only through the engagement of each individual viewer. Her text pictures
and sculptures fundamentally critique the desire to understand, to control, to have or own access. She consciously produces tensions between the exhibited artifact, its allusions and the required activity of the viewer. The stack of paper is not just a metaphor for the unfinished project, the as yet ‘unwritten texts’, but also for the pedestal, the potential location of the work, which appears time and again in various works with which the viewer often remains alone. Yet 579m2 or 0,061m3 or 1m Pile of Unwritten Writings, also demonstrates the visual precision of the artist and her exact attention to detail. By stacking the standardized copy paper, the edges become visible in a quantity not usually seen. Only in this pile do their various shades become visible, like the layers of a cake. By doing so, the sculpture exhibits the variations and inexactitudes of the mechanical process of cutting as an esthetic experience. The societal promise of the industrial standard as the final reliable arbiter appears here, like everything else, as construction that sometimes works well and sometimes poorly.

© Text by @soerengrammel * Grammel acted at that time as Artistic Director of @grazer_kunstverein

Presented at Rundgang at @ Staedelschule 2005. Short after at Ursula Blickle Stiftung in Therefore Beautiful curated by @vjmueller Featured in Idealismusstudio curated by @soerengrammel 2008

📸 Staedelschule 2005 © Pernille Kapper Williams / VISDA

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Prices jump Shares drop, 2025

Polished stainless steel
Ø 4 cm L 40 cm
Courtesy of the artist
@pernillekapperwilliams

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Layers upon layers of make-up

Blending in, 2017
Make-up by 資生堂 @shiseido_japan on canvas
30 x 25 cm
© Photo by Mikkel Kaldal

One of five paintings all part of the Danish Art Foundation public Art Collection since 2019. Courtesy of @statenskunstfond

#資生堂
#日本
#コペンハーゲン
#デンマーク
#現代美術

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Joint, 2024 (details)
Thanks to @statenskunstfond and in specific the previous board members of the Committee for Visual Art at the Danish Arts Foundation for making it possible to have time to develop ideas for some public sculptures

Much more to come

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Togetherness, 2022

Part of the exhibition SOLO at @die_raum Berlin
3 Decemer 2022 - 11 February 2023

© Photo by @jan_windszus_photography
Supported by @statenskunstfond

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You, 2022

Part of the exhibition SOLO at @die_raum Berlin
3 Decemer 2022 - 11 February 2023

© Photo by @jan_windszus_photography
Supported by @statenskunstfond

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Installation view:
Minimalism-Maximalism-Mechanissmmm Curated by Jacob Fabricius @jacob_fabricius
On view at @kunsthalaarhus until 8 January 2023 In collaboration with @artsonje_center Seoul.
Photo: Jacob Friis-Holm Nielsen courtesy of Kunsthal Aarhus
Supported by the Danish Arts Foundation @statenskunstfond

#makeuponcanvas #kbeauty
#kunsthalaarhus
#minimalismmaximalismmechanissmmm
#pernillekapperwilliams

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Installation view:
Minimalism-Maximalism-Mechanissmmm Curated by Jacob Fabricius @jacob_fabricius
On view at @kunsthalaarhus until 8 January 2023 in collaboration with @artsonje_center Seoul.
Photo: Jacob Friis-Holm Nielsen courtesy of Kunsthal Aarhus
Supported by the Danish Arts Foundation @statenskunstfond

#kunsthalaarhus
#jacobfabricius
#kangdongju
#asgerdybvadlarsen
#silasinoue
#osoparado
#chanmiheo
#kentiwemyr
#trevorshimizu
#nhowonhee
#kasperhesselbjerg
#thedumplingclub
#pernillekapperwilliams

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Sunkissed 2021
Bronzer and midtnight blue eye shadow on canvas
Dia 50 cm
Make-up by NARS @narsissist
© Photo @pernillekapperwilliams / VISDA

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On view at @artsonje_center
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페르닐레 카페르, ‹무제(서울 #1–#6)›, 2021, 캔버스에 한국 화장품, 6점, 직경 각 30cm. 사진: 이의록.

미니멀리즘-맥시멀리즘-메커니즈즈즘 1막–2막
2022. 1. 20 – 3. 6
아트선재센터 2–3층

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Pernille Kapper Williams, 𝘜𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘥 (𝘚𝘦𝘰𝘶𝘭 #1–#6), 2021, contemporary Korean make-up on canvas, 6 pieces, diameter 30cm each. Photo: Euirok Lee.

Minimalism-𝗠𝗮𝘅𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗺-𝕄𝕖𝕔𝕙𝕒𝕟𝕚𝕤𝕤𝕞𝕞𝕞 Act 1–Act 2
2022. 1. 20 – 3. 6
Art Sonje Center 2–3F

#미니멀리즘_맥시멀리즘_메커니즈즈즘
#minimalism_maximalism_mechanissmmm #contemporaryart #seoul #artsonjecenter #jacobfabricius #kunsthalaarhus #statenskunstfond

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In good company for a few more days in Seoul 💅🏻 Here pictured with works by @asger_dybvad_larsen and @studiomonicabonvicini Minimalism-Maximalism-Mechanissmmm Act 1–Act 2 at @artsonje_center curated by Jacob Fabricius @jacob_fabricius Later on view at @kunsthalaarhus
Supported by the Danish Arts Foundation @statenskunstfond

Minimalism-Maximalism-Mechanissmmm Act 1–Act 2 Installation view ⓒ 2022. Art Sonje Center. All rights reserved. Photo: Euirock Lee

#contemporaryart #seoul #artsonjecenter #아트선재센터 #미술

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