This monograph presents selected works from the first ten years of Danish artist Ester Fleckner’s career, spanning 2013 to 2023. It features new contributions from art historian Mathias Danbolt, curator and art historian Jenny Graser, and a conversation between Fleckner and scholar-curator Lex Morgan Lancaster. Working from queer and trans epistemologies, Fleckner (born 1983, Denmark) reimagines failure, unfinishedness, and displacement as valuable modes of knowledge. Through an abstract aesthetic, Fleckner challenges normative tendencies that perpetuate false binaries. Her work is often serial and exploratory, continuously evolving without a fixed endpoint. It offers alternative ways of navigating visual and linguistic representation, resisting rigid categorization. Fleckner primarily works with woodcut printing, a slow, physical technique that embraces difference, error, and unpredictability. Wood, as a natural material, becomes a fitting medium for Fleckner’s exploration of the body's relationship to cultural norms. Fragments of text or drawings, often added in pencil, interact with the printed works, creating a dialogue within the pieces. Her practice extends beyond woodcuts to include cast concrete sculptures, drawings, text work, and performative readings.

Specifications
Type: Paperback
Pages: 268
Language: English
Dimensions: H32 - W24 cm
ISBN 9788867496327