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Making artist publications
Amsterdam
@ruohong_wu & @josequintanar_artist

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We have some copies of:

1. Meditations on hunting

2. On growth & form (The Smoke Signal Library)

Link in bio by @thiswasaproject

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6 years ago

News soon… by @thiswasaproject

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3 years ago

This was a project but we have forgotten what it was

NUMBER 2:
UMT Archive
By @lluis.alexandre.casanovas
April 2023

Available in @librosmutantes by @thiswasaproject

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3 years ago

Sans Soleil by @gray_carmen

Carmen Gray watched Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil again. She copied all the subtitles and placed them one after another, without paragraphs or pauses. Every now and then, she stopped the film and took a screenshot. She cropped it until she found the image she was looking for. Photography as selection and cropping. She did this thirty-two times and left the images among the words.

There is no sound here. Nothing moves. The film is now inside a book. It is not the same film, of course. It is another way of returning to it. The way we return to a memory.

Third edition, September 2026.

18x29cm
16pages
Riso Printed
18€

Available online in our web by @thiswasaproject

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22 days ago

“This was a project but we have forgotten what it was” began simply, with a wish to enjoy ourselves. To play. To make things with our hands. To publish artists’ books. Our own, and those of our friends.

For two years, the table was empty. Now there is ink on paper again.

We begin again with Sans Soleil by @gray_carmen . First published under our old name, Ruja Press, it has been out of print for four years. Chris Marker made the film. Carmen Gray made this book.

People kept asking for the book. We had no copies.

We are glad to bring it back into the world. Very glad.

The third edition will be ready next week. by @thiswasaproject

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Twenty twenty twenty
@josequintanar_artist

This was a project but we have forgotten what it was

20x27cm
20 pages
edition of 100 copies
Printed with HP Indigo
April 2026
Amsterdam

Available at:
This was a project (dm)
Florence Loewy, Paris by @thiswasaproject

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5 months ago

Dutch Landscape 32
@josequintanar_artist

This was a project but we have forgotten what it was

20x27cm
8 pages
Printed with Risograph
April 2026,
Amsterdam

Available at:
This was a project (dm)
Terry Bleu Bookstore, Amsterdam
Florence Loewy, Paris by @thiswasaproject

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5 months ago

Dutch Landscape 31
José Quintanar

This was a project but we have forgotten what it was

20x26cm
16 pages
Edition of 100 copies
Printed with Risograph
April 2026, Amsterdam

Available at:
This was a project (dm)
Terry Bleu bookstore, Amsterdam
Florence Loewy, Paris by @thiswasaproject

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5 months ago

TWENTY TWENTY TWENTY

Three stacks of paper. From 1 to 20.
Three exercises, alike and different, unfolding within a publication.

No filters. No retouching.
The images appear raw, exactly as the were scanned

New publication by @josequintanar_artist available next week at @librosmutantes

20 pages
20 x 28cm
Printed on HP Indigo
Edition of 100 copies
Amsterdam
April, 2026 by @thiswasaproject

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6 months ago

We are back
We are back
We are back
again by @thiswasaproject

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6 months ago

City of the Good Neighbors No.2 (睦邻之城 No.2) by @thiswasaproject

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a year ago

Thanks! @abc_artbookinchina and @milkmaneggg !
City of the Good Neighbors No.2 (睦邻之城 No.2) in its new context. by @thiswasaproject

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a year ago