Travis Jeppesen, I Can’t Fuck My Way Through This, 2015, ink on paper, 29.7 x 42 cm
Travis Jeppesen, Untitled, 2015, ink on paper, 22.8 x 13.7 cm
Travis Jeppesen, New Writing, 2016, Installation view, EXILE
Travis Jeppesen, New Writing, 2016, Installation view, EXILE
Travis Jeppesen, Poem against the fog, 2016, ink on Paper, 29.7 x 42 cm
Travis Jeppesen, Gett off that toilet called life, the level that de-inspires you will come to be seen as the salt in the atheist’s mysticism, so reward the day, the outer shells’re unnecessary, 2015, ink on paper, 29.7 x 42 cm
Travis Jeppesen, Untitled, 2015, ink on paper, 42 x 29.7 cm
Travis Jeppesen, New Writing, 2016, Installation view, EXILE
Travis Jeppesen, Untitled, 2015, ink on paper, 29.7 x 42 cm
Travis Jeppesen, New Writing, 2016, Installation view, EXILE
Travis Jeppesen, Untitled, 2015, ink on paper, 29.7 x 42 cm
Travis Jeppesen, Mercury’s Shadows, 2014, ink on paper, 42 x 29.7 cm
EXILE is pleased to invite you to the first solo exhibition of writer and artist Travis Jeppesen in Berlin. Entitled, New Writing, the exhibition oscillates between text as language, as abstraction, as calligraphy, as image, as text. Two-dimensional subtexts reverberate within the gallery space, turning text to image to mirror, offering up a new language for the eye to decode.
Travis Jeppesen is an artist working in the medium of language. His books include novels such as Victims, Wolf at the Door and The Suiciders, poetry amongst them Dicklung & Others, Poems I Wrote While Watching TV, and art criticism such as Disorientations: Art on the Margins of the “Contemporary.” He is known as the creator of object-oriented writing, a metaphysical form of art writing that attempts to channel the inner lives of objects. His first major object-oriented writing project, 16 Sculptures, was published in book format by Publication Studio, featured in the Whitney Biennial as an audio installation, and was the subject of a solo exhibition at Wilkinson Gallery, London, in 2014. He is a PhD candidate in Critical Writing in Art and Design at the Royal College of Art in London.
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