under and so; even if afterwards – continually. Marianne Skaarup Jakobsen

The artist book under and so; even if afterwards – continually explores repetition, time, folds, and the language of objects. It examines and layers the conjunctions and interplay between touch and sight, and gradually and materially expanded from the environment of the artist’s studio. The project gives the reader/viewer access to ideas about the unlimited non-verbal speech of objects, or put another way, the conversations objects have with each other without our cognition. Skaarup Jakobsen uses inks, paper, plaster, metals, and other materials to produce interrupted or ruptured sedimentary layers that illustrate a shattered continuity and aesthetic. Such as those broken or eroded layers that recall how entropy and time are still abstract concepts for how we relate to objects we no longer perceive.

Each artist book is exclusively hand folded and cut, in a numbered limited edition of 100. Each page has been dyed in the artist’s studio and the cover printed with a century-old font. Every copy comes with a certificate signed by the artist.

Tacet Press was responsible for this special commission of Marianne Skaarup Jakobsen’s book project.