Capricious is proud to present Pro Anatomy, the first retrospective catalogue of Swedish artist Cajsa von Zeipel. Divided into three parts, the book includes sketches, photographs of the artist’s signature sculptures, and new images of the artist’s skeleton, which serve as a conceptual anchor for much of the book. Pro Anatomy also features new essays by writers Andrew Durbin, Chris Ford, Steffanie Hessler, Sarah Nicole Prickett, and Lyndsy Welgos, Pro Anatomy includes two new texts by the artist. In her introduction to the book, “Bad Sad Mad Glad,” the artist writes intimately about her practice, covering her range of interests, from installation work and classical sculpture to Tom of Finland and new media. “I have always fed on the border,” she writes, “where things are simultaneously appealing and scary—works that move from the attractive to the repulsive, grotesque, and studied."

In threading images from a CAT scan of her body throughout the book, Von Zeipel offers a new perspective in her continuing engagement with the human form. Pro Anatony presents Von Zeipel’s story—what Chris Ford writes is a “story of self and narcissism, techne, and courage, and audacity and hermeneutics and talent and heart and soul, deep intelligence, epistemology, too”—in a dynamic, comprehensive format that includes the artist's sculpture, drawings, writing, and digital film stills.

Cajsa Von Zeipel (b. 1983, Sweden) exhibited at the Gothenburg Museum of Art, the Stockholm Museum of Modern Art, the Royal Institute of Art, the Västerås Konstmuseum, and the Eskilstuna Konstmuseum in Sweden; M/L Artspace in New York; and Galleri F 15 and Buntelabo Kunsthall in Norway. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Art Foundation in Mallorca, Spain, the Eskilstuna Museum of Art, the Gothenburg Museum of Art, the Borås Museum of Art, the Gävleborg County Museum, the S.A.O. Foundation of Research and Culture, and the Västerås Museum of Art in Sweden. She has also exhibited at Capricious 88 in New York.