Varamo Press / Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine
Varamo Press is an artist-run, independent publishing house founded in 2018 by Mette Edvardsen and Jeroen Peeters.
Varamo Press embraces the unexpected and values the arbitrary circumstances in which writing comes into being. Snatching, wording, printing, it gives a paper form to various kinds of literature that have a fleeting life elsewhere.
Each book having its own mind and gravity, Varamo Press develops publications on a case-by-case basis with the care they require.
Since 2022 Varamo Press develops the series Gestures, small format books that come with a grey cover and a unified design. The series experiments with the essay genre and provides a platform for shorter texts we’d like to make available for wider readership and unexpected encounters. Gestures include commissioned essays as well as translations, reformulations and yet other alternative editions of existing material.
www.varamopress.org
In 2010 Mette Edvardsen started the performance project Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine, in which a group of people dedicate themselves to memorizing a book of their choice. Together they form a library of living books. Since then the project has developed in several steps, and today includes a library, a bookshop, a publishing house, over 130 living books in 20 different languages across Europe and beyond, workshops, an exhibition format, lectures and talks.
The most recent publication is The Appendixes #1-4, an editorial series by Mette Edvardsen, Léa Poiré and Victoria Perez Royo, made during a two-years residency at Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, in the suburbs of Paris.
www.timehasfallenasleepintheafternoonsunshine.be
Varamo Press embraces the unexpected and values the arbitrary circumstances in which writing comes into being. Snatching, wording, printing, it gives a paper form to various kinds of literature that have a fleeting life elsewhere.
Each book having its own mind and gravity, Varamo Press develops publications on a case-by-case basis with the care they require.
Since 2022 Varamo Press develops the series Gestures, small format books that come with a grey cover and a unified design. The series experiments with the essay genre and provides a platform for shorter texts we’d like to make available for wider readership and unexpected encounters. Gestures include commissioned essays as well as translations, reformulations and yet other alternative editions of existing material.
www.varamopress.org
In 2010 Mette Edvardsen started the performance project Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine, in which a group of people dedicate themselves to memorizing a book of their choice. Together they form a library of living books. Since then the project has developed in several steps, and today includes a library, a bookshop, a publishing house, over 130 living books in 20 different languages across Europe and beyond, workshops, an exhibition format, lectures and talks.
The most recent publication is The Appendixes #1-4, an editorial series by Mette Edvardsen, Léa Poiré and Victoria Perez Royo, made during a two-years residency at Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, in the suburbs of Paris.
www.timehasfallenasleepintheafternoonsunshine.be
Books, Varamo Press, 2024
Gestures, Varamo Press, 2024
The Appendixes #1-4, Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine, 2024