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One of contemporary culture’s greatest absurdities is its aspiration to make experience analyzable, calculable, and conservable. One of painting’s greatest promises is to vehemently oppose such presumptuousness. Against this backdrop, Peppi Bottrop’s first solo exhibition at Sies + Höke shouldn’t just be read as a pleasantly poetic twist, but also as a subversion of the conventional logic of time. How Long Is Forgotten? The entanglement of simple past and past participle produces a glitch that turns this inconspicuous question into a grammatical time warp; the message between the lines (and …