
Atlantic Undercurrents: Kielland, Bruscky, and Artistsâ Books
Brazilian curator, researcher, and writer Cristiana Tejo recently visited Stavanger as the recipient of the 2025 Itchy Fingers â A Writing Residency on Art Books. During her stay, embedded in the Kielland Centerâs art book collection, she reflected on her first encounters with artist books in Paulo Brusckyâs studio, placing that formative experience in dialogue with a public collection inspired by the work of Alexander Kielland.
Throughout the residency, Tejo investigated the âgaps, frictions, and silencesâ within dominant narratives about art books, focusing on the exchange between two markedly different collections of artist publications. In this text, she poetically brings together the seemingly disparate cities of Stavanger and Recife, an artistâs private studio-archive and a public book collection, tracing how each insists on forms of art that can be touched, circulated, and lived.
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- 16 December 2025
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