The first conversation from “On Record: Where We Move Sideways” is now live, an editorial series by Not The Owners developed alongside CASA’s “Lines of Flight” programme.
This edition feature @aji.press - a publishing platform working across design, curating and research.
From print as a tactile and slower medium, to bilingual publishing as a political choice, the conversation moves through questions of circulation, authorship, and how practices take shape across contexts.
Read the full interview on the Not The Owners website.
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Interviewees - @julianamonsalvec_@santiagovp , Ají Press founders
Interview by @audreyshmarkel
Editing by @gabriela_rglez
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Thank you to everyone who joined us last Saturday for the workshop “Collective Zine-Making” ✂️✂️✂️✂️
In the context of Jaime Gili’s (@jaimegili ) exhibition “Conuco” at Somers Gallery (@somersgallery ), we invited participants to a workshop in Temporary (@temporaryart__ ) exploring themes of geometry, abstraction, and botany. Using colour as a primary tool, participants engaged with a visual archive of fauna and landscapes from around the world, with a particular focus on Caribbean vegetation.
By the end of the session, we brought together our collages and compositions, creating our own version of a conuco (allotment) through a collective publication 📕
We are deeply thankful to everyone who took part, to the gallery for hosting us, and especially to Jaime for the invitation to collaborate 🌴
Join us this coming 14 March at Somers Gallery (@somersgallery ) to explore landscape, abstraction, and colour through a programme of talks and publication-making.
Drawing from Jaime Gili’s (@jaimegili ) exhibition ‘Conuco’, the artist will expand on his latest body of work, introducing his collaboration with Ají Press (@aji.press ) and discussing how publications can become vehicles for artistic and design dialogue.
We invite everyone to an event exploring publication-making from a collective perspective.
All welcome! 🌴
Programme:
4:30 pm — Introduction
5:00 pm — Artist Talk: Jaime Gili
5:30 pm — Publications and Collaboration Talk: Ají Press
6:00 pm — Collective Zine-Making
7:00 pm — Drinks
Location:
Somers Gallery - 96 Chalton St, London NW1 1HJ
Join @jaimegili for his new exhibition ‘Conuco’ at @somersgallery 🌴
The exhibition brings together a series of recent works: El Conuco de Marcos (2024–2025), En la Ruta de Cova (2025), and Kopë kë theka (2026).
Ají Press is happy to have contributed to the exhibition with the publication “Beyond Abstraction: Jaime Gili’s Landscape Paintings”.
Grab a copy at the opening tomorrow 🌱
PV: Thursday 26 February from 6 to 9 pm, Somers Gallery.
Curatorial Text: @santiagovp
Art Direction and Design: @julianamonsalvec_
Ají Vol. II will feature ‘Uncertainties’, an encounter of two photographic practices by artists Yihan Pan (@pyhii ) and José Cardenas Lorca (@jose.crd.l ) 📷
José Cárdenas (b. 1999, Chile) is a London-based lens-based artist exploring the connections between nature, memory, and spirituality through photography and audiovisual installation. Educated at the University of Chile and the Royal College of Art, his work has been exhibited internationally at Les Rencontres d’Arles, Cambridge University, and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, reimagining materiality as a living bridge between the visible and the sacred.
Ají Vol. II will feature ‘Uncertainties’, an encounter of two photographic practices by artists Yihan Pan (@pyhii ) and José Cardenas Lorca (@jose.crd.l ) 📷
Yihan Pan (b. 2002, Beijing) is an artist exploring the tension between visibility and disappearance through dust, water, and light. Using microscopes and telescopes, she investigates material transformation across scales. Bridging East Asian philosophies of impermanence with scientific and poetic ways of seeing, her work has been exhibited internationally at Jimei × Arles, BBC Television Centre, and independent galleries across London, Paris, and Amsterdam.
Joining us for Ají Vol. II: Unbounded Lines, Mateo Soto (b. 1996) will present a project centered on the politics of dancing and the dance floor.
Mateo is an architect, artist, and designer based in Bogotá, Colombia. His practice explores the “medium,” understood as the field or space in which human, non-human, and more-than-human actors interact and evolve.
The nature of his work is not static; it transforms through ongoing research and experimentation.
We are happy to present ‘Mapping Carrier Artefacts’, an archival publication based on a workshop we developed in 2025 alongside artist Rebeca Romero (@romero.beca ) for her solo exhibition ‘After the Sun’ at Copperfield, London (@copperfield_london ) 🪹
The publication explores the use of carrier artefacts and technologies through a series of anthropological and ethnographic books and documents. During the workshop, participants were invited to read, copy, and paste these artefacts, imagining their potential uses and engaging with the archive through fiction.
We will be presenting the publication at Index Book Fair this week (@indexartbookfair ). Send us a message if you want to get your hands on it!
Thanks to Rebeca, Copperfield, and all the workshop participants!
Text @santiagovp
Art Direction & Design @julianamonsalvec_
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