BOOKSHELF VI

Barakat

A drop in Ocean / The Nap

This artbook is a visual trip through symbolic minimal illustrations. In it, I explore primal, mystical, and philosophical ideas using simple forms that leave space for the viewer’s imagination. Each piece is meant to trigger reflection and open new ways of seeing — turning simplicity into something profound and alive.

Edition: 3, 10 / 2022

www.atbarakat.com

Clarion van Zanten

Lungo Tevere (Along the Tiber)

Lungo Tevere (Along the Tiber) is a visual ode to the sanctuary the river offers amid the chaos and liveliness of Rome. More than once, she helped me escape the uncertainties and difficulties that come with living abroad, giving me something familiar to hold on to in return.

Edition: 1, june 2024

instagram: @clarion.vanzanten

EH Fekken

mycorrhiza

"Dit boekje komt voort uit een opdracht van het platform het-onderste-boven voor twee organisaties. Ik zag als belangrijke overeenkomst het sociaal weefsel dat noodzakelijk is om tot iets te komen.
Een associatie met een fenomeen in de ons omringende natuur kwam bij me op, daar waar we niet vaak kijken en waar nog veel over uit te vinden is. We zien wel de uitkomst in de vorm van een plant.
Ondergronds werkt een plant via de wortels samen met schimmels, dit heet mycorrhiza. Deze samenwerking leidt tot een gezond groeiende plant . Er wordt ondergronds eerst veel werk verricht om het bovengrondse tere begin te waarborgen en de daarna volgende ontwikkeling.

Het werk is gemaakt uit restanten passe partout karton, zijdedraad en rijgdraad. Het karton is lasergesneden en lasergegraveerd. Elke geopende bladzij geeft een ander beeld van de stroom die door het werk zit."

Oplage: uniek, 2025

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ina-fekken-01236b134

EH Fekken

mycorrhiza groen

"Een variatie op mijn eerdere boekjes over het sociaal weefsel dat noodzakelijk is om tot iets te komen. Een associatie met een fenomeen in de ons omringende natuur komt bij me op, daar waar we niet vaak kijken en waar nog veel over uit te vinden is. We zien wel de uitkomst in de vorm van een plant. Ondergronds werkt een plant via de wortels samen met schimmels, dit heet mycorrhiza. Deze samenwerking leidt tot een gezond groeiende plant . Er wordt ondergronds eerst veel werk verricht om het bovengrondse tere begin te waarborgen en de daarna volgende ontwikkeling.

Het werk is gemaakt uit restanten passe partout karton en groene draad. Het karton is lasergesneden. Elke geopende bladzij geeft een ander beeld van de stroom die door het werk zit. Het object is niet eenduidig en kan van meerdere kanten bekeken worden."

Oplage: uniek, 2025

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ina-fekken-01236b134

Floris de Jonge

zonder titel

Plotted flipbook with animation of a spiral Flipbook with seamless animation loop of 120 frames of a spiral. Penplotted with an Axidraw SE/A3 using blue ink

Edition: 1, 10-2025

Instagram: @dejongefloris / www.kunstnerd.nl

Floris de Jonge

Our shadows will roam Vienna

The curated selection in this book re-imagines significant historical moments from the 20th century that have often been proven to be historical important. A key element of the book is the use of AI to reimagine historical images and Google Streetview photography of related locations of assassinations of political leaders. The AI process, utilizing a feature of Adobe Photoshop's reference image capability, involves style transfer but can adopt specific figures from input, sometimes leading to "concerning results" despite guidelines against violent content. The work highlights the enduring human impulse to document and commemorate significant events.

Edition: 1, 10-2025

Instagram: @dejongefloris / www.kunstnerd.nl

Graciela María Gonzalez

Tercer Ejército

Edition: 130, junio 2022

Hinke-Ann Eleveld, I. Hyunsuh, Marion de Boer, Natascha Rodenburg, Michel de Vries, Ian de Boer, Geert Lugtenborg, Marja Kiers, Annet van der Kamp, Wilma Vissers

Imaginary Travellers During a workshop in ARTisBOOK, participants were invited by H.A.Eleveld to open all senses, in order to appeal to everyone’s imagination both individually an collectively. Travelling becomes an exercise in presence and perception. Together a reflection was made by drawing on a roll of paper. This process resulted in an artisbook made by the participants.

Edition: unica, June 12th and October 18th 2025 

Jacky Weerman

Rond om de tafel

"Mijn boek Rond om de tafel is een reflectie op de dynamiek binnen mijn familie. Het benadrukt het belang van gezamenlijke momenten, zoals maaltijden, waarin gesprekken plaatsvinden die de onderlinge banden versterken. Toch is niet iedere relatie binnen mijn familie
vanzelfsprekend sterk. Soms zijn er spanningen of onuitgesproken gevoelens die de verbinding bemoeilijken. Het boek nodigt uit tot reflectie over hoe we met elkaar omgaan en hoe we deze relaties kunnen verbeteren."

Oplage: 1, 04-2025

on instagram @foto.rolletjes and @_studiojacky

Jasmin Latupeirissa

Werkplaats van de wadden

Het WEC is een plek waar mens en natuur samenkomen, waar bezoekers, kinderen en wetenschappers de Waddenzee van dichtbij kunnen beleven. Een circulair gebouw vol verhalen, gebouwd met bijzondere materialen en een architectuur die laat zien: wij zijn Waddenzee.

Oplage: 750, Februari 2025

@designer.jasmin | behance.net/latupeirissa

Jeanne Lai

What wasn’t meant to stay

"Floating memory, in my early twenties. What Wasn't Meant to Stay is a photobook gathering images I took over the past four years, drawn from my old phone, SD cards, and laptop—the companions that followed me each time I moved in my early twenties. These photographs hold moments that might have quietly disappeared, erased by
time or overwritten by new memories.
In them are shadows that tremble, reflections on water, meals shared, animals crossing my path, and fragments of private solitude. Regardless of where I lived, my gaze returned to familiar elements,
shaping a quiet aesthetic that also flows into my paintings. This book is my way of preserving what almost slipped away, and of sharing that fragile permanence with others."

Edition: 2, May, 2025

@ittypetty
https://ittypetty.com

Joyce Rensema

Separeren kun je leren

Lentis Residency
oplage: 3, 09/2025

Khashayar Najafizadeh

From the archival research to Goodbye Masculinity: Embodying queer disorientation

The book begins with a research-based exploration of the SIGN project space archive, delving into the works of artists who have engaged critically with themes of heterosexuality, gender stereotypes, body politics, and beauty standards. This research serves as a conceptual framework for the development of the short film Goodbye Masculinity / Where the Walls Breathe, in which I sought to embody a sense of “queer disorientation” within the gaze of a heteronormative environment.

Edition: 1, May 2025

Instagram: khashayarnz

Leila Mokhtari Mahmel

Mahmal

"This sketchbook is titled "Mahmal", a word that refers to something that carries precious belongings. For me, this book became the vessel that carried the last two months of my life in Iran and my transition to the Netherlands. Inside its 20 × 10 cm hardcover, I created around 80 drawings during my final trips across Iran, my journey to obtain a visa, and finally my arrival in the Netherlands.

Every page reflects the emotions, impressions, and shifting states of that period. The sketches are spontaneous yet deeply connected to the experience of movement, uncertainty, and change.

Unlike a printed book, Mahmal is entirely unique — a one-of-a-kind object that functions as both visual diary and artwork. With 80 original drawings, it stands as a collector’s item for anyone who values authentic artistic traces."

Edition: 1, 2025 (from July to October)

https://www.instagram.com/leilamokhtari_varnosfaderanii?igsh=MTE3a2o5MmhnempybA==

Linn Andree

Windminnend

Windminnend is a personal reflection on doubt and not-knowing within the making process

Oplage: 5 with aluminium case, 30 without case, June, 2025

@lamorsinque

Linn Andree

A cyclical thing

A mountain shaped leperello with photographs by my father from his young years as a mountain climber.

Edition: 6, May 2025

@lamorsinque

Madalena Figueiredo

Text based

This book explores the relationship between text layout and color. It began with some analogue experiments that later were translated into digital compositions. It focuses on four important themes in graphic design: grid, rhythm, emotion and space.

Edition: 1, January 2024

instagram: @madalenamimimi website: https://madalenafigueiredo.cargo.site/

Madalena Figueiredo

Untitled

Photography exploration on unnoticed moments, focusing on connections between humans and their surroundings. It looks into how people navigate their environment, seeing without looking. Collage was used as a way to lace those photographs together, creating different narratives and moments.

Edition: 1, January 2025

instagram: @madalenamimimi website: https://madalenafigueiredo.cargo.site/

Marta Calero Segura

A poetry of loose threads

This work weaves together memory, identity and the body through an investigation into intimacy, sexuality and fragmentary writing. The instantaneity of the Polaroids contrasts with the painstaking process of letter-pressing the text, that is comprised of fragments of works by Virginia Woolf, Chris Krause, Patty Smith and Marta Calero. Through the two locations and long period that the pictures are taking in, and the multiplicity of voices that collaborate in this text, this work simultaneously aims to give a close look into the life of the artist and resonate with the audience through themes that are all too familiar.

Edition: 1, January/2025

@arre.all / martacalerosegura.eu M.calero.segura@outlook.com

Marta Calero

Segura A Gash, a tear, a wound, an opening

A Gash, A Tear, A Wound, An Opening, is a visceral and poetic study on feminism, art, and the historical positioning of women. It traces the ideological and aesthetic threads that have constructed femininity through centuries of patriarchal thought — from the myth of Eve and the cult of the Virgin Mary to the institutional exclusion of women from art and language. Drawing on theorists like Griselda Pollock, Rozsika Parker, Marina Warner, and Luce Irigaray, it examines how the female body has been idealized, disciplined, and silenced, while celebrating feminist artists who reclaimed their bodies as sites of resistance and creation. The text becomes both critique and reclamation — a manifesto for rewriting the language of art and womanhood. A call to return to the body, to dismantle imposed myths, and to speak ourselves into new, liberated forms of being.

Edition: 1, June/2025

@arre.alla / martacalerosegura.eu

Neele Schlette

Rivierlandschap

Rivierlandschap is a collection of drawings and encounters along the riverside of the Lek near Culemborg. During walks, I met people who shared what this place means to them and the memories it holds. The booklet brings together these encounters and the locations where they took place, forming traces of conversations about finding calm and movement in the landscape. The drawings emerged as part of a visual exploration of the relationship between people and the landscape - between those who live here and those who come to spend time in nature.

Edition: 10, September 2025 (drawings from 2023)

Instagram: @neeleschlette - website: neeleschlette.com

Ona Vidunaite

Silent Geometry

"Silent Geometry is a 28-page art book combining minimalistic graphic works with small poems about reconnecting with oneself, finding rest in slowness, and being present with nature. Each page invites the reader to pause — to return inward and remember what feels true. Through clean lines and darker tones, the artworks trace a quiet journey toward stillness, exploring the space between solitude and wholeness. Silent Geometry is an invitation to breathe, to slow down, and to rediscover the feeling of being yourself again."

Edition: 2, 2023 09

https://fragiledrawings.com/

Rosa Los

Weg van steen (A way from stone)

"This zine is a visual-poetic exploration of impermanence, stillness, petrification, habituation, memory and the ways in which humans try to build a sense of home and basic safety. The process involved taking long walks out of the city and the work emerged from a feeling of deep connection to the revealed landscapes. It is composed of a combination of handwritten poetry (in Dutch), drawings, photographs, and pieces of wood, stone, bone, textile, and old postcards found along the way, which seem to fit together seamlessly.

The texts and drawings are associative and tentative. The house and the stone, as entities, recur as motifs—something to keep holding on to. Two symbols of both preservation and transformation.

The choice of handwriting and analogue visual material reinforces the vulnerability and authenticity of the whole, and invites attention, presence and feeling."

Edition: 1, december 2024

Silvio Zangarini

Starcases to Elsewhere

"Staircases to Elsewhere is not simply a photobook, but a continuation of the photographic series through another medium. The same conceptual and visual dynamics that shape Silvio Zangarini’s images (thresholds, disorientation, layered perspectives) are reimagined through the language of design. Developed in close collaboration with designer Sybren Kuiper, the book translates the logic of the series into structure, sequence, and form, turning the object itself into an active space of experience. Rather than a container of images, it becomes a device that expands the work: photographs unfold, overlap, and fracture, echoing the unstable perception of architecture they depict.

The crowdfunding campaign to finance the book will launch in November. For now, a dummy offers a first glimpse into how design and photography intertwine in Staircases to Elsewhere, anticipating the experimental publication to come that will offer readers not just a collection of images but a spatial and conceptual journey."

Edition: 100 (crowdfounding starts in November all along 2025)

instagram: silviozangarini | silviozangarini.com

Tanja Isbarn

Läufe (courses)

"This small former sketchbook was a gift I received blank from Sophie Schmidt at the end of a residency period in Bern in 2012. It contains approximately a year’s worth of handwritten documentation.

Red circular shapes, drawn with either the right or left hand—mostly ‘blind’ and guided by the touch of the paper's shape and edges—form the basis of the compositions.

Some pages include ‘translations’ of poems, quotations, or song lyrics.

The last two or so pages are in black, as I was drawing at night while lying in a hospital bed after an operation—the red pen was missing."

Edition: 1, 2012-2013

www.tanjaisbarn.com, @tanja.isbarn

Valeria Glibiciuc

What Does The Light Want From Us?

“What Does the Light Want From Us” is an artist’s book that brings together a series of essays exploring the idea of light as a complex, living force, physical, emotional, and philosophical. It asks how light shapes the way we perceive, remember, and understand both the world and ourselves.

Moving through themes of visibility, exposure, and transformation, the book reflects on light not only as something that reveals, but as something that questions, intervenes, and directs attention.

Together, they form an inquiry into how illumination organizes meaning: how it frames perception, dictates what can be seen, and defines what remains hidden.
The book invites into a reflective space where language and perception meet. It is both a study and an encounter, an attempt to think through light as relation, as awareness and life giver."

Edition: 1, May, 2025

Instagram: @valeria.glibiciuc

Vera Alberto Esperança

My experience with bikes

A small zine about my experience with bikes, done during the process of the other works for research purposes.

Edition: 2, january 2025

https://www.instagram.com/_vera_esperanca_/

Vincenzo Fiore Marrese

Creating a New Language: Impossible. (et vous êtes)

"Creating a New Language: Impossible. (et vous êtes)," is an artist's book that offers a critical reflection on artificial intelligence and its social implications. The artist tried to create a new language by creating a short circuit of meanings between the artist and a chatbot. The AI declared this idea "impossible." Then it invented Syntalish. Syntalish is the language in which the book is written. In a recursive process, the book tells the story of an AI that invents a new language and the implications for humans. It follows a science fiction narrative pattern connected to the idea of "robot," a word originally associated with forced labor. In the end, the chatbot refused to generate an image of death. Then, when the artist asked for an image of the end of life, the chatbot agreed. This image is included in the book.

Edition: 1, January 2023

https://www.vfmarrese.com https://www.instagram.com/vfmarrese/

Wim Meter

Aberraties

"De tekeningen in mijn boek 'Aberraties' registreren een stukje fietspad langs het Reitdiep in de stad Groningen. De imperfecties in de markeringsstrepen zijn omgezet naar systematische tekeningen bestaande uit verticale en horizontale lijnen. De verticale lijnen geven de afwijkingen weer, het kader markeert de omtrek van de streep.

Het werken op dun Japans Awagami papier en het binden van de vellen stelt de maakbaarheid op de proef."

Oplage: 1, 15-08-2025

Instagram: @wimmeter

Xiaoyun Gao and Anna-Maria Ivanova Rusenova

System 0011

"This publication takes the form of a book-as-space, presenting the world and epistemology of the 0011System, which departs from Western-dominated cognitive frameworks.

It is also an experiment in spatiality, reading order, and modes of cognition. Contained within a single box, the work is divided into three distinct yet interwoven components: stories about beings, the system view, and structural research.

Reflecting the 0011System’s non-linear order of time and space, the publication rejects conventional linear reading. Its pages remain unbound, existing as independent yet overlapping elements that can be extracted, recomposed, intertwined, or read in parallel.

Readers are invited to construct their own reading paths, guided by intuition, preference, or chance, thereby generating diverse modes of cognition and experience."

Edition: 24, 6-2025

INS: @gaox.xx