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Virgo Hands Books

Virgo Hands Books is an experimental publishing collective founded by Aima Fan (China) and Helena Ospina (Colombia), brought together in London by a shared devotion to books and a Virgo sensibility. The collective produces artist's books in limited editions, approaching the book not as container but as object: sculptural, spatial, interactive, and conceptually expansive. Rooted in the editorial and the handmade, Virgo Hands Books treats publishing as a practice of attention to materiality, to encounter, to the expanded possibilities of what a book can hold, demand, and become. Their work engages with themes of philosophy, poetry, and existentialist theory, reflecting on questions of being, perception, and how meanings are produced.
Notes from The Upper Deck: a score and durational performance
Aima Fan, Notes from The Upper Deck: a score and durational performance, Virgo Hands Books, 2026, © Aima Fan

The inside of a double-sided concertina book. This work functions as the documentation of an ongoing action: The artist must record a note every time they take the bus; the recording must take place within the bus exclusively, with only basic editing allowed outside of the bus; and the artist must stick to it.

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Do hands hold or are they held?
Helena Ospina, Do hands hold or are they held?, Virgo Hands Books, 2026, © Helena Ospina

Cover of the book with two vinyl gloves printed in UV, that come as part of the special edition.

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Do you paint or do you draw?
Helena Ospina, Do you paint or do you draw?, Virgo Hands Books, 2024, © Helena Ospina

Insides of the book, where you see an image printed in risograph overlaid with a poem printed in tracing paper.

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Virgo Hands Books
London (United Kingdom)
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