Error, Object, Structure comprises more than a decade of Adam Jeppesen’s work – from the epic photographic journey of the Flatlands Camp Project, 2009 to the new, monumental installation The Great Filter at BRANDTS - Museum of Art and Visual Culture, 2019.
The book contains 63 colour plates from various projects, along with text contributions from Catherine Troiano, (V&A), Sarah Allen (Tate Mordern), Hinde Haest (Foam), Søren Gosvig Olesen (Univ. of Copenhagen), Mads Damsbo (Brandts) Leonard Koren (author of Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets and Philosophers, 2008 and Wabi-Sabi: Further Thoughts,2015).
Adam Jeppesen is a Danish artist, based in Argentina. He creates work that addresses the materiality and transience of the photograph as an object. Much of Jeppesen's work is the result of a solitary 487-day journey from the North Pole to Antarctica in 2009 called The Flatlands Camp Project. The journey has left visible traces and blemishes on the photographs as he carried his film and camera equipment with him on the road, where the negatives picked up grit and dust along the way. Jeppesen celebrates these imperfect elements rather than tries to hide them. Coincidence, damage and imperfection are essential elements in his work. At a time when the image has become infinitely perfectible and reproducible, Jeppesen experiments with the photograph as a unique object that is subject to the forces of change and decay.
Adam Jeppesen and I are kindred spirits. We are connected through words-words that I set down in my two slender volumes on the subtle concept of wabi-sabi. As I most succinctly defined it, "Wabi-sabi is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. It is a beauty of things modest and humble. It is a beauty of things unconventional […] With a bit of imagination you can probably conjecture how Adam may have set about transforming these notions into the mysterious and elusive images and objects that appear in his art.
- Leonard Koren, 2019
