Mire Lee
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 2026, 32 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 21 × 29.7 cm, English
Price: €12

Produced on the occasion of Mire Lee’s exhibition The Heart of My Machine is Golden Lead at Secession, Vienna, 26 June–26 August, 2026.

Mire Lee’s large-scale installations are often composed of leaking mechanisms and quasi-organic structures that appear to drip and decay. Deliberately broken motorised elements seem to strain under their own operation, resisting the seamless efficiency associated with contemporary technological aesthetics. With texts from Haris Giannouras, Gemma Barricarte and Mire Lee. Designed by Sabo Day & Rosen Eveleigh.

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Money Horse Book
Sands Murray-Wassink
Published by Die schönsten schwulen Bücher, Amsterdam & Berlin, 2025, 456 pp. hardcover with dust jacket (colour & b/w ill.), 29.5 × 19 cm, English
Price: €40 (Temporarily out of stock)

Sands Murray-Wassink is an artist based in Amsterdam. A long-overlooked cult figure in the city’s art scene, his work spans decades, touching on themes of gender, desire, intimacy, mental health, and self-exploration. Deeply influenced by intersectional feminism and queer theory, his practice revolves around, and is shaped by figures such as Carolee Schneemann, Hannah Wilke, Adrian Piper, and Eva Hesse.

Since 2014, Sands has predominantly focused on what he calls “Horse Drawings,” utilizing mostly watercolors and often incorporating quickly drawn texts, on A4 and A3 formats, both on white, coloured paper and found material such as newspapers. These drawings, while sometimes devoid of actual horse imagery, all bear the title and embody the spirit of equine grace, symbolizing a personal journey towards healing.

Designed by Sabo Day.

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Disobedience
Jacqueline de Jong
Published by JRP|Editions, Zurich, 2025, 280 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 23.5 × 32 cm, English?German
Price: €42

Published to accompany the artist’s retrospective at the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen (September 2025–March 2026), this comprehensive monograph offers a detailed overview of the work of Dutch artist Jacqueline de Jong. Designed by Sabo Day and edited by Melanie Bühler, curator of the exhibition, this publication spans De Jong’s entire artistic journey of from her editorial activities and bold figurative paintings of the 1960s to her Billiards series in the 1970s, and her latest series of the 2020s that reflect the current state of the world.

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Simone Fattal
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 2024, 48 pp. with folded poster (colour & b/w ill.), 15 × 21 cm, English
Price: €18

Produced on the occasion of Simone Fattal’s exhibition metaphorS, at Secession, Vienna, 21 June–8 September, 2024.

The publication includes a series of collages and drawings by the artist, inspired by Gustav Klimt’s Beethoven Frieze. A reproduction of a new collage is inserted into the book.

Designed by Sabo Day.

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A Shrine to Aphrodite
Philipp Gufler
Published by Hammann von Mier Verlag, München, 2023, 78 pp. with 16 silkscreen printed mirror papers (colour & b/w ill.), 22.5 × 29.7 cm, English/German
Price: €100

The human body is a central focus in Philipp Gufler’s mirror painting series. Looking at the work, the spectator is confronted with their own image. To make these works Gufler uses a silkscreen printing technique on mirrored glass in order to produce layers of translucent pigment.

“Gufler’s ‘mirrorical’ art passes through the looking glass; his spaces are traps for the gaze. The reflective surfaces and diaphanous scrims in his oeuvre function as projection screens and as obstacles in games of identification and disidentification; recognition and misrecognition; self-performance and self-alienation.“ Sven Lütticken. Designed by Sabo Day.

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Glass Urinary Devices
Patty Chang
Published by A Tale of a Tub, Rotterdam, 2024, 32 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 17 × 21 cm, English
Price: €12

In 2015, artist Patty Chang (1972) followed the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, the longest aqueduct in the world, which brings water from southern to northern China. While walking, she collected her urine in plastic bottles, drinking their contents before refilling them, in turn drawing a connection between the large-scale infrastructural attempt to control the flow of water and the uncontrollable flows of her own body. Once back in Boston, Chang began making a series of portable urinary devices from discarded plastic bottles, which were then hand-blown in New York by glass-blower Amy Lemaire.

Designed by Sabo Day, this indexical publication is the first book dedicated to depicting the series of sixty-four sculptures in its entirety. It was published on the occasion of Patty Chang’s exhibition at A Tale of A Tub, which ran from September 14–November 3, 2024.

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