Peggy Kuiper Is Having "The Conversation That Never Took Place"

"I trust myself and I'm very go-with-the-flow in that sense," Peggy Kuiper told us last Fall in feature in our Quarterly edition. "When it comes to painting, all the creative freedom lies with me." There is something about these proclamations that struck me when I saw the name of Kuiper new solo show, The Conversation That Never Took Place, on view at Reflex Amsterdam starting on May 11, 2024. Her work speaks to memory, but also a narration that she seems to be having with the characters on the canvas. The women in the works seems of an ancient place, mimicking a passage of time but also very much in contemporary contexts. It feels distant and yet so close to the…