On the banks of the Randselva in Norway sits the now disused paper pulping factory of Kistefos. Its paper pulping machine has lain dormant since paper production was transferred to the far east in the 1950s. The factory and its grounds is now the site of Kistefos Museet, an celebrated museum and sculpture park and now the site of John Gerrard's (b. Dublin 1974)  latest and most ambitious work to date.

'Pulp Press (Kistefos)' consists of a hyper-realistic, large-scale projected 3D rendering of the original pulping machine, painstakingly remade in a virtual world and reanimated to be once again producing paper. The work is housed in a dedicated poured concrete pavilion (designed in collaboration with Dublin-based architects A2) which sits along the edge of the river that originally powered the press  and now powers the projection itself. The virtual paper produced in the work, each piece structurally unique, is preserved purely as data in an ever-expanding store of hard drives also housed within the pavilion.