Is Life Under The Sun Not
Just a Dream
Rocco Venezia
17 x 24 cm
104 pages
Hard cover
Design by Ilaria Miotto
Art direction by Tommaso Parrillo
Published in July 2025
ISBN 979-12-80177-48-3
€30
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Winner of the Ear/eye award 2024.
Is Life Under The Sun Not Just a Dream is a publication that combine a book by the Rocco Venezia and a music cassette by Luigi Scaramuzzo.
The first 100 copies inclued the music cassette.
By experiencing the idea of Southern Europeans in countries like Portugal, Italy, Greece, and Spain, I want my work to investigate their contemporary surfaces and tracing a comprehensive mental representation of their dreamlike reality.
la terrazza
AA.VV
23x28 cm
1112pages
Published in June 2025
in collaboration with Ciao Discoteca Italiana
ISBN: 979-12-80177-47-6
Contributor:
Alvar Altissimo - Architerror - Claudio Biazzetti - Andrea Cassi - Giulia Cavaliere - Amina Chouairi - Matteo de Mayda - Eleusi - Fontanesi - Alice Guarini - Eleonora Marangoni - Sarah Mazzetti - Kovalis/Stratus - Giulia Ninotta - Carlo Pastore - Piero Percoco - Livia Satriano - Ragazzi di Strada - Daniele Tinti - Giulia Vanelli - Angelo Vignali.
€20
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The first magazine by Ciao in collaboration with Witty Books.
An in-depth sentimental investigation into the Terraces of our lives, sketches of existences lived in the open, exposed to the elements.
In the pages of the magazine, a compendium of physical, dreamlike, futuristic and metaphorical verandas dedicated to those who dream of living suspended from the ground, looking out a few meters above human things, to try to change the world while absentmindedly sipping an iced drink.
The C.I.A.O. firmly believes in scenic sunsets, in the democratic sea view and in Terraces free for all, because balconies and terraces are nothing more than immense emotional prisons.
Anatomy of an Oyster
Rita Puig–Serra
23x28 cm
144 pages
Soft cover with poster dust jacket
Design by Ana Domínguez Studio
Published in July 2025
ISBN: 979-12-80177-28-5
First 50 copies at special price
Shipment expected middle July
Mother-of-pearl, which will in time become the pearl, begins to form when a foreign element is introduced into the oyster. Anatomy of an Oyster is a journey into the past – a path backwards to revisit places from the author’s childhood that help contextualise her present. It traces a story of violence, revision and integration from the abuses she suffered in her family as a child. It is, above all, an attempt to tell what needs to be told; a way of telling what could never be revealed to a now absent mother. And, at the same time, a way of telling it to herself. In this descent into the depths of remoteness, images and texts of the pearl-forming process accompany both new and archival photos, as well as short notes that capture her emotional, bodily and family memory. The pearl, which is an oyster’s autobiography, is the result of this exploration: a search carried out to find it, assimilate it, and finally remove it.
Award
Les Rencontres d’Arles Book Awards 2024 - Shortlisted
Press
Velvet eyes
Borderland
Filippo Barbero
104 Pages
23,5 x 28 cm
Hard cover
Design by Ilaria Miotto
Edit and art direction by Tommaso Parrillo
Text by Aaron Schuman
Published in April 2025
ISBN 979-12-80177-46-9
€38
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“All things in life that once existed tend to re-create”.
“Borderland” represents an intimate research in a familiar place where I grew up since my tender years. Here I would find refuge in my grandparents’ house and feel a strong love coming from them, nature and all the living creatures in the land those silent hills where I felt free to express myself. To me everything is bordered in this rural village on Tuscan-Emilian Apennines, and it is this dimension of indefiniteness that pushes me to a relentless pursuit for the traces of a time that I have not lived enough or that I have lived too much.
My past blends with my present and suggests my future steps. I do not know whether I should listen to it or let myself be carried away by the fresh wind the same one that accompanied me and my grandfather and our conversations about existentialism during hot summer nights, while marvelling at the beauty of the constellation, lying downhill on a wet meadow.
Everything that surrounds me wants to get close to me, just like then, rethinking the legacy of a relationship created in time: with this aim, begins a process of interpreting reality without a celebratory, symbolist nor documentary intent. Rather, it turns out to be an evolution aimed at a deep redemption of my past and present being, producing at the same time an emotional tension that, just as on an extremity, hovers between joy and pain.
In such research, which aims to establish a reality and dream, I try to retrace over time fragments of an existence regarding family, growth and belonging.
The line of water
Sara Palmieri
168 Pages
23 x 31 cm
Soft cover with dustjacket
Design and edit by Fiorenza Pinna
Published in March 2025
ISBN 979-12-80177-45-2
€36
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The Line of Water explores memory as a shifting, fluid entity, where trauma is not just a wound but a catalyst for transformation. Through a poetic and metaphysical reflection on transience and loss, the project examines how the territory—both physical and emotional—absorbs, reshapes, and transmits traces of the past, generating new languages of remembrance and creation.
Sara Palmieri, a visual artist working primarily with photography, investigates the material and symbolic potential of images. Her practice extends into sculpture and performance, using experimental processes to explore how territory and personal narratives shape collective memory, questioning the ways in which images construct and deconstruct reality.
Inspired by the Polesine flood of 1951—the most devastating in Italian history—the project considers the territory as an archive of memory, where water, earth, and inherited stories act as living agents of
transmission. The image itself becomes a perceptive surface where opposites merge: visible and invisible, past and present, submerged and emerged. The book-object, curated by Fiorenza Pinna, expands this exploration into a spatial, visual, and tactile experience. The material shifts, transparencies, and overlays disrupt the reading flow, mirroring the instability of history and perception. In this interplay between image and matter, the book itself becomes a territory of creation, where memory takes on new forms and new languages emerge from the fractures of the past.
Award
Les Rencontres d’Arles Book Awards 2025 - Shortlisted
