Boston Art Review Press for LOVER

​​“LOVER” is vibrating with cosmic wonder and pure sensory experience. Spending time with Piepgras’s videos is like being perched right between her eyes, where we are granted the rare and miraculous privilege of experiencing someone else’s visual, sonic, and tactile world. Piepgras captures and reflects back at us the moments when we are most open and porous to the world, when the world touches us back. For the artist, these instances of heightened sensation include moments of enormous trauma and grief, as well as encounters with the natural beauty of the earth. The works engage with trauma across multiple scales, from the individual human body (e.g. cancer) to the unfurling back into the outside world (e.g. ecological collapse). Piepgras realizes all this gracefully and lovingly, holding our hand throughout. What makes itself felt most strongly is what Piepgras describes as a critical and profound “love for the world.” At “LOVER,” flutter your eyes open a crack and let a stream of light in.

-Jane Freimen