RRose Editions

We are a non profit association under French law, founded in 2014 in Paris. We publish contemporary artists' books, with a focus on conceptual and digital processes. Each publication project is unique and starts from a blank page, in dialogue with the artists, with no predetermined format or printing technique - our aim being to publish "books as artworks". The artists we work with come from various countries and origins. Most of time, we self-distribute our publications, through our website or during Art Book Fairs, museum exhibitions, and also work with specialized booksellers such as Yvon Lambert, Christophe Daviet-Théry or Printed Matter. In the same spirit, the projects are self funded, and priced to be affordable for a large range of readers and collectors (from 8 Eur to 48 Eur so far). Print runs are typically low, from 100 to 500 copies.

Patsy Baudoin & Nick Montfort, Rubrique Technologie / Tech section, Rrose Editions, 2026, © Patsy Baudoin & Nick Montfort

RT/TS is based on a text generator that produces French and English news items that imagine some of the ways technology will impact us in the near future. Most of the generated news involves people getting struck by autonomous vehicles or even aircraft. Others describe labor disputes, hostile takeover attempts, inventions, and the termination of online services. While many of the texts are stamped out using an almost trivial method, a significant minority of them are generated using a large language model (LLM), leading to outcomes that are sometimes more amusing, but that do not obey the norms of news writing, often are not even narrative, and sometimes can be much less coherent. What is imagined in RT/TS is not apocalyptic or discontinuous but actually features many of the same problems we face today; the methods of producing the texts are today’s as well.

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Julien Gachadoat, Noir Orion, RRose Editions, 2025, © Julien Gachadoat

Noir Orion” is a sketchbook of 63 drawings generated by an algorithm designed to explore the gradual transformation of a simple shape: the circle. On each page, the algorithm applies a series of geometric operations that evolve the circle into increasingly elaborate configurations. Then, in a reversing motion, the forms simplify until they return to lines evocative of a star. The book’s visual trajectory weaves a connection between pure mathematical abstraction and a cosmic entity.

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"Une livre" is "A pound" is the weight of this book. The feminization of its title (un livre in French is a book) evokes books dealing with gender equality, too absent from libraries and forgotten by history. An invisibility highlighted by these white pages. More than 250 reference books have been identified. Their list is printed separately and slipped between two pages.

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