HILDE CATHRINE KJEPSO works with collage, painting and drawing. Geometry and fragments of sentences points back to Bauhaus and the ‘cut-up writing’ of the Dadaists. She operates by self-imposed rules in her work, with strips, shapes and fragments set against each other. Contemporary life, rhythm and art itself are underlying subjects. Visually too, there’s always something underneath. In a never-ending collage series named ‘Poems’ the passing of time is documented. The paintings  comes from the collages, but has evolved into something different with elements from the cultural heritage of the west part of Norway and the work of the female textile artists of the Bauhaus era. Kjepso lives by the Akerselva river in Oslo, a river historically connected to the first textile industry in Norway.

Kjepso is also part of the art/action group Guerrilla Plastic Movement, which uses art – sculpture, performance, stage design and workshops to draw attention to marine plastic pollution. 

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