SO-RI is a small RISO print studio, operating from our garage in Borgerhout, Antwerp.
We are both a print studio and a publishing house.
Which means we offer print services for all your designs, zines, posters, and more. And we also publish a select amount of artist editions and occasionally sell a limited edition RISO art print.
Becoming Terrestrial
notes towards the land cameras project- Tim Theo Deceuninck
Published by SO-RI, Antwerp, 2024.
RISO printed in Black and Light Grey.
18 x 13 cm, 172 pages.
He uses holes in the landscape as the basis for a camera obscura, which he then uses to photograph the landscape itself. In effect his alteration in the landscape, enables the landscape to photograph itself.
Nine Japanese Castles
-Marnicq RoebbenRemember how they told us not to look into the sun
- Anais LesyPublished by SO-RI, Antwerp, 2024.
RISO printed in Black.
20 x 25cm, 70 pages.
Her photographs are a poetic ode to what nature is remembered as.
Instructions for losing yourself
- Maarten InghelsPublished by SO-RI, Antwerp, 2023.
RISO printed in Aqua, Black, Flat Gold, Green, Orange and Violet.
7 x 12cm, a set of 30 cards.
With an English translation by Jonathan Beaton. Illustrations and design by Nousjka Daniëls.
The poem was cut into 28 fragments, and were printed onto a set of cards. The illustrations were added by Nousjka Daniëls.
When in need, shuffle the deck of cards into a new order and select an instruction at random. Once you have completed an insturction, select a new one.
Oberfläche
- Marnicq RoebbenPublished by SO-RI, Antwerp, 2023.
RISO printed in Black.
19.5 x 25.5cm, 132 pages.
All the images push you closer to the surface of the architecture, leading you into a narrow field of view.
SHORT SCAR/VES
- David BoonPublished by SO-RI, Antwerp, 2023.
RISO printed in Black on coloured paper.
15 x 19cm, 8 art works.
CAT / SCARES / SCRATCHES / SCAR / SCARF
The onecuts stand on their own as ‘SCAR’ and in a pattern as ‘SCARF’. The result is a publication / booklet / work to put on the wall.
Boon looked at simple things and uses them in a different way, whether it’s the shapes in old advertisements or the binder that he uses to show his work in this project, or the perforations to mimic the appearance of a scarf.
Tiengemeten
- Vibe Stalpaert & Jasper CoremansPublished by SO-RI, Antwerp, 2022.
RISO printed in Black.
28 x 35cm, 104 pages.
This work is a silent conversation of Stalpaert and Coremans. Which combines Coremans’s poetry with Stalpaert’s photographs.
The Grey Book
- Annie NaskydPublished by SO-RI, Antwerp, 2022.
RISO printed in Black, Fluor. Orange, Green and Purple.
19.5 x 26cm, 52 pages.
Annie created a series of graphic illustrations that correspond to the sourced text in the book. She constructed each image using 10 distinct 'pixels,' placing them one by one until the picture was ‘complete’. Annie has since incorporated this approach into my other design projects, blending the principles of manual work and artistry into her designs.
Cloudscapes
- Inês MartinsPublished by SO-RI, Antwerp, 2022.
RISO printed in Black, Bright Red, Green and Yellow.
C6, 11 cards in a small envelope.
These ten basic cloud types are part of the modern classification system in the troposphere (the lowest layer of the atmosphere), and vary in their shape and altitude.
The postcards series analyzes the ambiguous content between real and virtual space, capturing what the hand cannot touch, hold and squeeze.
2140 Antwerp, Belgium