blank projects presents Mallarmé’s Pillow, Gerda Scheepers’ sixth solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition’s title, itself an unlikely and intriguing associative merge, invokes the French symbolist poet Mallarmé’s understanding of meaning as emerging through the relation between form, content and language, an approach that resonates with Scheepers’ treatment of painting as a medium to be both constructed and read: an evolving process through which she continually holds the boundaries between abstraction and pictorial representation in tension. Across the exhibition, abstraction remains tethered to the world of things, while the image is kept fragmentary, shaped and contained within the picture plane. A visual syntax emerges across the compositions, forming a constellation of relations in which forms feel at once finite and open-ended.

The exhibition will culminate with the publication of a new book focussing on the artist’s recent practice, accompanied by a text from Owen Martin, Senior Curator at Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, and curator of Space Making (2025) at the same museum.