By bringing the lover’s body back, Jeppe Sleeping doesn’t merely counter absence with presence, with the intent to suggest a new narrative, as a solution of an opposition to death, or any related politicizing. Instead, it delineates a pulsating life, through the unassuming sensoriality of an unassuming portrait: not only Jeppe’s, but potentially of anyone’s – so familiar yet so evasive – intimacy.
– excerpt from the essay
“Something else that remains unknown” (2024) by Maša Tomšič on the series of copper etchings titled Jeppe Sleeping
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