OUTER SPACE PRESS

This weekend two of our recent titles (last copies of “36 Potplants” and “dead pages no.5) are available to purchase at in a curated bookshop section “ctrl+p”.
We are thrilled to have our work presented in the impressive location and amongst countless great works on paper.

The Fair is open today and tomorrow 11—6pm at Platz der Luftbrücke 7, in the impressive location of Tempelhof’s Airport Main Hall.

Come by! ♥️

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.magdalena

Dead Pages No. 5: Parasites unfolds as an interspecies collaboration carved by bugs and completed by and .magdalena . In its fifth iteration, Dead Pages turns its attention to the strange intimacies between decay and desire. Parasite begins with a chance discovery: a Chinese manuscript from 1898, found by .magdalena and and Pogo in Tokyo’s Jimbo-cho neighborhood. The object itself was already transformed, its pages meticulously tunneled by an unknown insect. The bug’s silent labor etched filigrees through the paper, never touching the ink, as if respecting language while feasting on its vessel. From this devoured relic, the artists constructed a new book-object: a hybrid work where paper, image, and absence intertwine. Into the eroded manuscript they inserted images from a 1970s entomological dictionary—a taxonomy of the creatures that consume, preserve, and annotate through destruction. The resulting work, rephotographed and reassembled, forms the tactile architecture of Dead Pages No. 5.

Read more and grab yourself a copy, available now through our Webshop (linked in our profile description)

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Arriving back in Berlin after two weeks in Tokyo feels a little hard, but thankfully we found something really exciting waiting for us in four postbox—an article about us and a review of “And Then There Was the Night” by Diane Smyth in the latest issue of the British Journal of Photography

We are humbled and proud to finish the year with this prominent feature. Thank you Diane for inviting us for a lovely chat about our practice, studio and books, it’s been a true pleasure.

Grab yourself a copy to read more! 🤍