Jessica Williams

It was fall, now it is winter. The sorrow in Gaza keeps multiplying over and over. 💔 Children, doctors, witnesses, parents and everyone in-between are being indiscriminately and disproportionately killed and maimed. Palestine deserves our endurance in the face of Western silence. As an artist I worked with earlier this year said to me over a peaceful lunch: [Solidarity] is not a race, it is a marathon. 𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝘾𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙚𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙉𝙤𝙬 The sign reads: FREE PALESTINE For a tough little one with sensitive skin.

Mushrooms that look like flowers, wild garlic and other edible gifts, flowers that act like mushrooms ❤️💚 Ramsons (ramsløk), Sarcoscypha austriaca (skarlagen vårbeger), Fiddleheads (strutseving), mychotrophic wildflowers (no chlorophyll)

Wow, what a week. Just a little taste: I’m the curator and designer for this year’s @khio_artandcraft @khio_artandpublicspace MFA degree show. Save the date: 29 May, 17:00 @uks1921 🗓️🎊 Thanks for having me on Wednesday to celebrate the newest edition of @paragone.no 💚 and talk about 𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 Still in shock I didn’t try @toogoodtogo.no a single time during two years of working at Nitja because wow the scones at Garcon 🤯 Thank you for visiting me in Moss and accompanying me on my annual pilgrimage to Fredrikstad and @ostfoldkunstsenter to drop off work for the summer exhibition @shyradicals 📚✨ This year I said yes to being on the board of my local chapter @soppognyttevekster.no and did a kombucha tasting for over 20 enthusiasts who came from Oslo, Horten, Halden and Fredrikstad. 🥂 Yes also to dandelion pancakes and forced rhubarb sorbet. No, sorry, I will not share the location of Jeløya’s local wild asparagus. Have a nice weekend! 😇

Hverdag Books publishes unique and experimental editions for and about the everyday. Based in Moss, Hverdag Books is an artist-run imprint dedicated to publishing vulnerable and raw works by underrepresented voices, primarily in Norway. Hverdag is a place to put things down: poetry, conversations, hybrid and visual essays, and more. It is also the publishing practice and risograph print studio of Jessica Williams since 2016. Williams has taught a number of risography and self-publishing workshops and presentations for students, adults, teens, and children — all over Norway and also abroad. For more info go to /about * OPENING HOURS Wednesday 12 - 5pm Thursday 12 - 7pm Friday - Sunday 12 - 5pm ** Lessons in Love 14.2.26 - 3.5.26 Jacky Jaan-Yuan Kuo, Wei Ting Tseng, Jessica Williams, Joen Vedel, Yaniya Mikhalina, Minne Kersten, Sebastian Rusten *** All images: Abrakadabra Studio @studio.abrakadabra

Love as sorrow, love as mending, love as repair. Only a few days left to catch my brick works at @uks1921 These were lovingly reinstalled about a month ago, without much fanfare. Thank you to everyone that has visited, contemplated and written about them. Thank you to all my friends, peers, and collaborators who are keeping me busy with various art-related jobs at the moment. The pipe dream is to save up enough money in order to focus entirely on my own practice and mushrooming from the fall. We’ll see. 🙇🏻‍♀️

𝘐 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘺𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧, 2012/2022/2026
Bengalack (enamel paint) and text on bent steel band, 2026
3 × 300 cm In 2012, I wrote a text encapsulating an inner paradox: 𝘐 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘺𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘴𝘪𝘮𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘦𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘭𝘺 𝘥𝘳𝘢𝘸𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘦𝘳 𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘢𝘯-𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘰𝘣𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥. Ten years later, the text was published as an edition of 100 silkscreened lanyards, and is now presented  @uks1921 on a bent steel band found in a forest in Råde, Norway. On view until May 3. 🐌

We the international riso community ❤️ Robert Baxter! Last week, he saved my dying CV machine with a button battery and a pack of zip ties.. only an hour after declaring it only having a 20% chance of survival due to electrical issues. The next day, he and I gave the machine the deepest clean ever and he fixed the registration. 🪄🎢 He also gave me the most thorough and patient mechanical training on how to improve the registration on SF machines. The one at House of Foundation got a spontaneous tuneup from the inside out.. 🧤And I even got to witness the moment Lexie Owen’s RA machine (that’s almost as old as me) got resurrected. Not only that, but over three sweet days, he was my houseguest. We shared so many meals and conversations about the right to repair, value, and community. Thank you, Robert! 🌟

The snow is melting and hidden stars are emerging. Plucked off the asphalt outside Strømmen Storsenter and the grass outside Oslo Rådhuset, just a few days apart. Wedged into pockets and a book I had on hand. Magical diagrams by @callumdg from a book I made last year. 💙🌟 Available @uks1921 and @nitja_senter_for_samtidskunst

Thank you to @stephssu for writing a text to/about my brick works that are currently on view @uks1921 as part of the group exhibiton 𝓛𝓮𝓼𝓼𝓸𝓷𝓼 𝓲𝓷 𝓛𝓸𝓿𝓮. 💌 These works were originally and last shown in Sandefjord, almost exactly one year ago. The odd bricks were collected on Jeløya: eroded and formed by decades of being washed between the fjord and beaches. They are filled with crushed hardrives, obsolete technology, and debris from the beach and my home. 💿💎🧱 Last year, these artworks appeared uncredited and unwritten about on the front page of a national newspaper. Oddly, what hurt very much at the time became an inseparable part of the work: 𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘨𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦. 🗞️ For the exhibition at UKS, I commissioned a text from Stephanie Serrano Sundby as an attempt at mending. A love letter to the work, if you will. Because to see one’s work through another’s eyes and pen is a gift. Physical copies of the text are wedged between the layers of the largest brick sculpture, as well as folded into the catalog for the exhibition.

It’s the end of an era, that went by so fast.. Two years as an institutional curator @nitja_senter_for_samtidskunst Takk for meg! Here’s a little BTS of some favorite moments and exhibitions I’ve worked on. 🦋 And maybe see you on Friday? I’m moderating a panel during Nitja Natt in connection with 𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴, 𝘞𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘙𝘶𝘭𝘦𝘴, curated by myself and @moonicah ✨ During my time at Nitja, I curated / co-curated / produced 3 exhibitions plus 1.5 others in the project room. I got to work with two groups of young curators @praksistab with some truly capable colleagues. This year’s group (the cuties in the third slide) also has an opening on Friday which is not to miss. Last year I also got to work with a Romanian delegation of young curators and mentors @cdrf.ro through a whirlwind and fun EU collaboration that I helped write the application for 🤓 In this job, I did so much I never thought I’d be able to do before and learned so much on the way. I have nothing but admiration for all my (ex-)colleagues. Nitja is an unafraid and generous institution who trusts artists and follows through on collaborations that few others would even take on. Respect! ❤️

Posting two days in a row 🫨 to properly announce the beginning of a year long presence @uks1921 📚❣️ Throughout 2026, Hverdag will have a physical presence with publications that rotate in and out of the cozy corner behind the desk at UKS. The books here are both for reading and for sale — and on a sliding scale of course. Stay tuned: the plan is to eventually launch new books, activate previous ones, and maybe even have a birthday party? Also every time I come in with new books, I’ll fix the chair a bit more.

See you tomorrow at 𝓛𝓮𝓼𝓼𝓸𝓷𝓼 𝓲𝓷 𝓛𝓸𝓿𝓮? When does a thought become an Idea? When does an artwork become an Artwork? In 2012, I wrote this text: 𝘐 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘺𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘴𝘪𝘮𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘦𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘭𝘺 𝘥𝘳𝘢𝘸𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘦𝘳 𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘢𝘯-𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘰𝘣𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥. For years, this poem/manifesto/mantra informed how I produced and interacted with the world. I held onto it for a decade before producing an edition of absurd lanyards for the 2022 @bergenartbookfair — I made them first and foremost for myself, who has been known to misplace keys. At that time, there was also (still is?) a furiously increasing trend at art book fairs of merch selling better than books. 🫠 Also in 2022, I made a wall painting of the text @house_of_foundation to start what would be one of, if not the, biggest and most important art projects of my life: (𝘣𝘦)𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨. Now, in 2026, a new version of the work is moving to @uks1921 ❣️But not tomorrow. 𝓛𝓮𝓼𝓼𝓸𝓷𝓼 𝓲𝓷 𝓛𝓸𝓿𝓮 is an experimental group show that will change and evolve during through the exhibition period. For now, I’m showing brick piles and ornaments, with a new contextualizing text (love letter?) by @stephssu 🧱💌 In addition, @hverdagbooks will also have an outpost at UKS through early 2027. Here, if you also desire, you too can own an absurd, 100% functional lanyard. The ones on display are they very last ones 🎀🔑