"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 present. Kuiper's conversation lies in the fact she has created a sense of time, a lineage only she can decipher but for the viewer to witness and find themselves in. There is a paradox in painting memories that feel universal, to show time as something we can all understand and yet find so overwhelming to see pass in front of us. Here is where Kuiper settles in, and opens up, and makes compelling and elegant works. Everything is timeless and yet so full of time in the same place. —Evan Pricco