Petra Gipp: Passage schakt nisch fodring nav vandring [Special Ed nr 75]

This is a limited edition of "Passage schakt nisch fodring nav vandring" made in 100 copies, numbered and signed in absolutely stunning slipcase with a wax-filled area.


"Passage schakt nisch fodring nav vandring" (Passage/shaft/niche/lining/nave – wandering) is a poetic artist's book that reflects on architecture, materiality and the design process

Petra Gipp portrays her work through the casted plaster. Here, she sculpts an altogether distinct voice that makes architecture melt together with place, body and thought.
For Petra Gipp, working with models is pivotal. It is a method for approaching architecture, often independently of scale. Here, space can be sculpted through a focus on volume, elements and details, where everything melts together into a single thought. To seamlessly work with one material allows one to shape an architectural idea on the basis of the material. In that way, the rooms and volumes that she creates may get clarity and a personal voice.
Photographs, Indian ink washes and text weave a story around architecture; the elements, how they are put together; the gap that arises in the composition of the elements; how that room relates to the human body – the wandering. The plaster castings are brought together with newly written poems by the poet Ann Jäderlund, which provide the plaster with a resonating foundation to brace against. Professor Emeritus Peter Bjerrum reads Petra Gipp’s work through Loos, Corbusier and Mies; Helena Mattsson reflects on the imaginary world of architecture and the physical model; and Sune Nordgren concludes with thoughts on architecture and art.