Replika Publishing

Co-Founded by Freya Copeland and Youvalle Levy in Berlin in 2015, Replika Publishing is an independent publishing house producing work under two main branches; Replika Volumes and Replika Artist Books. Influenced by ‘Fluxus’, we explore new methods of exhibition through printed matter and book arts. We seek to provide artists with a platform which is indiscriminate when it comes to place, gender, and career, and one which is able to focus purely on conceptual engagement.

Replika Artist Books are single artist/collective publications produced in close collaboration with selected artists with a particular focus of photography. From inception of the project through concept development, sequencing, layout, design, print and production to distribution and exhibition, Replika Artist Books are in small runs with a high attention to detail and materiality in order to best communicate the artist’s project. The outcome of each Replika Artist Book is an Art-Object of high conceptual and artistic content.

Replika Publishing also hosts workshops and exhibitions in our studio/gallery in Berlin Neukölln.

Kate Schultze, mind the gap, luv., Replika Publishing, 2024 © Kate Schultze

A couple of years ago, I lived in the UK for a while. My best friends still do, and I visit 2-3 times a year. After the Brexit referendum I started to talk to my friends about politics, discovering that most of them voted to leave the EU. This was quite shocking for me, as most of them did not have any solid rationale behind their decision.

This series explores post-referendum Britain. It focuses especially on Yorkshire and the West Midlands, as well as their surrounding areas, where the Brexit vote was strongest and shall have the most impact going forward. In order to gain a better understanding of “Britishness”, I am observing the subliminal marks left by Brexit in order to investigate whether there is a connection between the culture of “Britishness” and the drive for independence from the EU, and whether this exists within my circle of friends and family.

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Sabine Zoltnere, From Sheltering Ballad, Replika Publishing, 2024 © Sabine Zoltnere

From Sabine Zoltnere upcoming book Sheltering Ballad.

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Lar is the third book in the ongoing photographic conversation between Freya Copeland and Youvalle Levy called Correspondence. Previous in the series are; Kalt and Weathering.

From Spanish: Lar, m. god of the home and household ; (fig.) home, homestead.

In the third book of the series Copeland and Levy explore the meaning of Home, the way in which the feeling of home can change and the difficulties of acquiring the belonging to a new home.

Newspaper print edition of 70

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