Andrea Grundt Johns
Oslo, Norway
For over 10 years I have been working with the book as a way of approaching sight through tactility, and explore the idea of seeing with other senses. My books are a combination of (riso)printed larger editions and handmade, unique and sculptural works.
Recently my work also started to explore our relationship to nature - how nature shapes us and how we shape nature - looking into the past and present as well as into a speculative future.
Publications
Den Gråeste Oldtid (2024)
“Under en ekspedisjon blir det funnet en større mengde slipte og blankpolerte jernklumper i Kirkenes-området. Klumpene snur opp ned på vårt verdensbilde og åpner opp for en rekke spørsmål. Hvor kommer de fra? Hvem skapte dem? Hva brukte de dem til?
Hvordan vil fremtidige arkeologer tolke de spor vi etterlater? Hva velger de å se nærmere på og hva sier det om oss? «Den Gråeste Oldtid» er et spekulativt fremtids-arkeologisk verk hvor leseren får innblikk i vår fremtidige tapte sivilisasjon.”
edition of 50, printed at Dagfinn Hansens Trykkeri AS in Kirkenes
21x14.8 cm. 24 pages.
petric epiphanies - a transition into gray (2023)
First part of the project “Mountains & Rocks (Følelser for fjell)” (2022-) developed during a workshop with The Greenhouse - Center for Environmental Humanities at the University of Stavanger, November 2022.
edition of 20+2, riso printed at Blekksprutn risotrykkeri in Oslo.
20x14 cm. 28 pages.
Printed on Skizzenblock newspaper, 49gm/2. Cover: hand-cut potato-paper.
There is so much power in feeling insignificant. (2023)
Notes from a trip to Førdefjorden visiting the mountain Engebøfjellet, the possible location of a new open pit mine. Material from museum visits, talks with the mining company Nordic Mining and the local population of Vevring.
This 2nd edition was specially printed for Vevringutstillinga 2023 (The Vevring Exhibition 2023).
Multidesign 150 gsm
Edition of 50, riso printed at Blekksprutn Risotrykkeri, Oslo
Alminnelig tussmørke (2022)
Boken består av egne observasjoner og tekster blandet med tekster og sitat lånt fra en rekke forskjellige kilder som værmeldinger, filosofer og atlas blant annet. Målet er å forsøke å skape undring, nysgjerrighet og «omtanke» hos publikum ved å fremme forskjellige påstander, tanker og observasjoner.
29,7x42cm, 25 pages, ed. of 1 + 5
laser print on translucent vellum (100 gm), cardboard and plastic cover, bound with ring binder system mounted on recycled teak.
Ferns (2017-2021)
One-off. Botanical ultra smooth paper coloured with 10 different ferns in hand bound box.
50,5x36,5x5 cm
24 pages
In the Beginning there was no Blue/I begynnelsen var ikke blått (2021)
ISBN–978-82-692446-0-1
A poetical approach to seeing, the colour blue, whale sounds in the universe and trees we cannot see. Bilingual publication in English and Norwegian.
Edition of 100, 60 pages.
Riso printed at Pamflett, Bergen
cyanotype of plastic on tracing paper (book) (2020)
A series of 12 unique cyanotype leporellos on tracing paper (40/45gr). Bound in a cardboard folder with laser engraved title.
approx 36x210 cm when unfolded.
