Have You Ever Wondered How We Met?: A solo exhibition by Pepi Erdbories

Pepi Erdbories is a German contemporary artist whose work exists at the intersection of text, painting, and sculpture. Her practice centers on language as a lived and emotional experience, where words extend beyond communication into physical and spatial form. Originally working as an illustrator before fully dedicating herself to her artistic practice, Erdbories has developed a distinct visual language that blends abstraction with handwritten text. Her work resists a fixed interpretation, instead creating open frameworks where individual experience and collective emotion can intersect.

At the center of the exhibition is Erdbories’ ongoing Love Letter Sculpture series. Hand-formed clay envelopes, painted with acrylic and framed in acrylic glass, translate the intimacy of written correspondence into sculptural form. These works carry the immediacy of handwriting and the presence of touch, emphasizing language as something physical rather than purely visual. Love, longing, passion, and loss are depicted directly, and embedded within the material itself, allowing each piece to function as both object and emotional record.

Alongside these sculptures, the exhibition presents paintings and sculptural works that expand on the act of writing as both expression and restraint. Realistically rendered letters and the Unsent Sculptures series explore the tension between what is communicated and what remains withheld. Crumpled forms and fragmented texts suggest moments of hesitation, interruption, and vulnerability. Across the exhibition, language is approached as a system of fragments, where meaning is shaped as much by absence as by presence.

Together, these works examine communication as an emotional structure, one that binds, separates, and evolves over time. Have You Ever Wondered How We Met? invites viewers to move beyond reading into a more intuitive engagement, where meaning is not fixed but experienced. The exhibition positions Erdbories’ practice within a contemporary dialogue around text and materiality, offering a body of work that is both visually precise and emotionally resonant.