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Hverdag Books
Moss, Norge
Hverdag Books publishes unique and experimental editions for and about the everyday.
Based in Moss, it is an imprint dedicated to publishing fragile, vulnerable, and raw works by underrepresented voices in Norway. Hverdag is also the publishing practice and risograph print studio of the artist and curator Jessica Williams since 2016.
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Publications
unknown unknowns / Jessica Williams (editor) (2025)
ISBN–978-82-93633-29-7
This reader is the companion to an artwork by Jessica Williams of the same name, produced on the occasion of her nomination to the 2025 Sandefjord Kunstforening Art Prize.
Four of the contributing artists are working collaboratively and/or experimentally, have shifting roles or identities, and whose works bind together the past, the present, and the future. Their disparate practices can be seen as strategies to meet unknown unknowns. The fifth is an engineer who loves art and printed matter who written on harnessing critical thinking to see the future. Williams has contributed with editing, text, and image material.
We all do what we can with what we have. Together we have more.
unknown unknowns
Jessica Williams (Editor) with Makda Embaie, Callum Gilmour, Aidan Moseby, Pawel Stypula, Kate Ngan Wa Ao
Edition of 300
Softcover
Perfect bound
106 pages
140 x 200 mm
2025
Breaking Bread and Language / Makda Embaie (2025)
ISBN–978-82-93633-30-3
Breaking Bread and Language aims to carve out a space where people can practice their specific language constellations without it being aligned, compared or corrected into the idea of language that the nation state has. Both a guide and a testimony, the book and associated work are generous and intimate. Featuring illustrations by Hanna Habtezion.
Breaking Bread and Language
Makda Embaie
Second edition of 200
Softcover
Perfect bound
64 pages
120 x 180mm
2025
Ban m zòrèy ou – Lend me your ear / Jelsen Lee Innocent & Lunise Cerin (2025)
ISBN–978-82-93633-28-0
A poignant conversation between the artist Jelsen Lee Innocent and the filmmaker Lunise Cerin on Haiti, living in diaspora, and what we owe (and what we can do for) where we come from. This publication uses beautiful Cerin's short film "Victorine" as both the starting point for the conversation and the raw visual material that Innocent has deconstructed and collaged.
Ban m zòrèy ou – Lend me your ear
Jelsen Lee Innocent & Lunise Cerin
Edition of 100
Softcover
Perfect bound
40 pages
140 x 185 mm
2025
What should an artist look like? What should a practice feel like? / Jessica Williams (2024)
ISBN–978-82-93633-27-3
"This salient delineation between a struggle that is imposed and implicitly purposeless versus continuing to work at something that is sometimes needlessly difficult, may not always make sense to others, and can seemingly have a ceiling that can not be exceeded was deeply affecting for me as well as very funny… [also] sometimes we make typos and just live with them." — Other Books, Los Angeles
"A debrief with myself and the sibling of pile. It feels so good to process and shed all of these experiences from my time at Nasjonalmuseet in connection with the opening exhibition in 2022. The content is at once very specific but universal to artists who face the public in their practices or jobs in the cultural field." — Jessica Williams
What should an artist look like? What should a practice feel like?
Jessica Williams
Edition of 100
Softcover
Untrimmed, sewn binding
44 pages
90 x 148 mm
2024
