Sam Jedig
Catalogue
This catalogue is built around a fragmented interview between Sam Jedig and Kristian Hornsleth, recorded and edited by Hornsleth in 2000. Rather than functioning as a traditional artist interview, the text unfolds as a series of personal reflections, recollections, and statements that trace Jedig’s artistic and existential development over time.
The conversation moves freely between biography, artistic method, doubt, ambition, failure, and conviction. Jedig reflects on his early relationship with painting, his resistance to institutional frameworks, and his parallel roles as artist, gallerist, curator, and collector. Painting is described not merely as a profession, but as a space of refuge, experimentation, and survival—at times meditative, at times chaotic, and often contradictory.
The fragmented structure mirrors Jedig’s artistic approach: working with disruption, collage, cultural and natural fragments, and a deliberate refusal of fixed narratives or stylistic stability. The interview touches on themes such as control versus chance, order versus confusion, visibility versus privacy, and the tension between mainstream expectations and artistic extremity.
Rather than presenting a coherent autobiography, the catalogue allows contradictions to coexist. The text emphasizes process over resolution and positions artistic practice as a lifelong negotiation with reality, identity, and time. In this sense, the catalogue functions as both a document of artistic thinking and an open-ended reflection on what it means to live with and through art.
FRAGMENT
Interview by Kristian Von Hornsleth
Design: kriastian Jakobsen
Edition 800
Produced by Stalke Out Of Space
ISBN 87-90538-12-9