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Alongside our participation at PaperBack Art Book Fair in Riyadh, we are thrilled to announce our latest fundraiser edition—‘Mirror Mirror’ by Avinash Veeraraghavan. Mirror Mirror by Avinash Veeraraghavan, 2025 ₹25,000 38 x 56 cm Edition of 50 screen print on four colour lithograph signed on verso ‘Mirror Mirror’ features a four-colour lithograph featuring minute abstracted details of a raw vision painting by Taehee Kim, who, being diagnosed as autistic, faces challenges in verbal and written communication, overlaid with a screen print of the image of a stone sculpture of a little boy looking into a mirror. Avinash Veeraraghavan (b. 1975, based in Bangalore) draws on his interest in visual culture, craft, and digital imaging to create layered prints, graphic books, multichannel video installations, and embroideries. His dreams by day and night have been a fundamental and prominent part of his life and have informed his work for much of his career. Solo presentations include those at GALLERYSKE (Bangalore, 2022, 2016, 2014), Tilton Gallery (New York, 2013), and Galerie Krinzinger (Vienna, 2011) and group presentations include those at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (New Delhi, 2025), Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2016, Prague Biennale 2011, and in the traveling exhibition ‘Indian Highway’ at Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, 2012), Herning Museum of Contemporary Art (Denmark, 2010), and Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art (Oslo, 2009), amongst several others. ‘Mirror Mirror’ has been produced as a fundraiser edition for Reliable Copy at Atelier Prati, Bangalore and follows past Reliable Copy Publisher’s Circle prints by Jyoti Bhatt, BV Suresh, and Mariam Suhail. ‘Mirror Mirror’ is available now to order via Press Works Store in India and will launch internationally at PaperBack in Riyadh. Please contact us by DM or by email ([email protected]) for international orders or for any queries.

Robbie Williams by Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Seda Naiumad, Uwe Schwarzer, Ashkan Sepahvand, and Robbie Williams Comprising a cast of characters including two artists, an assistant, a writer, and the proprietor of an artwork production company, this book explores the figure of Robbie Williams—the artist, not the singer. Across interviews, notes, an essay, press releases, a slideshow, and a multiple-choice test, Natascha, Seda, Ashkan, Uwe, and Robbie unpack the myth of the solo artist and his SOLO SHOW. Natascha Sadr Haghighian is constantly at odds with the art world and asks Seda to deal with it. Seda Naiumad is an assistant since 2006. She also has her own practice. Uwe Schwarzer is the founder and director of mixedmedia berlin. The company produces artworks for contemporary artists in an extensive range of materials, techniques, and dimensions for exhibitions and projects in international museums and galleries since 1999. Ashkan Sepahvand is an artist, writer, and researcher. He was born in Tehran, Iran, grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and lives and works between Berlin and Oxford. His practice takes time. An interest in words and bodies shapes his enquiries. Projects take the form of performances, publications, and regular collaboration with friends. Robbie Williams—the artist, not the singer. Author(s): Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Seda Naiumad, Uwe Schwarzer, Ashkan Sepahvand, and Robbie Williams Publisher: Reliable Copy Year: 2025 Dimensions: 18 x 12 cm Pages: 172 Language: English Cover: Softcover ISBN: 978-81-970506-4-0 Price: ₹600

Native ball by Anup Mathew Thomas Native ball is a collection of four bodies of works set in Kerala. A compedium on various phenomena, it brings together moments from alternative histories of a culture and region, some of which are based on commonalities that may be odd but significant. It puts forward the breakdown of plans, inescapable outcomes, and the future as a space ripe for speculation. Comprising 43 colour plates and 33 texts in both English and Malayalam, the book is a record of a people and a place—filled with overlaps, intersections, insights, and misunderstandings. Anup Mathew Thomas is an artist based in Berlin. Working primarily with the photograph, his works engage ostensibly local narratives, introducing audiences to stories that may have gone missing from the archive. Over the last two decades, he has produced a series of projects that engage with and make reference to the cultural history of his native Kerala. Author: Anup Mathew Thomas Publisher: Reliable Copy and DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program Design: Nihaal Faizal Year: 2025 Dimensions: 17.5 x 24 cm Pages: 248 Language(s): English and Malayalam Cover: Softcover ISBN: 978-81-970506-0-2 Launching today at Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair. Available now from Press Works in India, and soon at other retailers worldwide. @anupmathewthomas @daad_artists

Out now on Himal Southasian: Shubhra Dixit write’s about Native ball by Anup Mathew Thomas. “Native ball brings together four earlier projects: View from Conolly’s plot (2010), Hereinafter (2012), Native ball and revisions (2014) and Scene from a wake (2015). On the surface, the book appears to function as a documentary record of the region, combining the authority of text and image to present what initially reads as truth. At the same time, it has the feel of a cabinet of curiosities, recalling the “incredible-but-true” compendiums of childhood.” Read the full article on himalmag.com via link in bio. @anupmathewthomas @himal.southasian

Reliable Copy is proud to present our fourth iteration of Total Runtime at Kerala Literature Festival 2026, in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore, featuring works by Anup Mathew Thomas, Gavati Wad, Kiran Subbaiah, Mariam Suhail, Mochu, Natascha Sadr Hahighian, and Pushpamala N. Total Runtime 1:05:03 curated by Reliable Copy 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm Sunday, 25 January 2026 at German Pavilion / Amphitheatre, Kozhikode Beach Total Runtime is a screening series featuring videos by artists associated with Reliable Copy. The films in Total Runtime are screened chronologically, oldest to most recent, with this simple rule acting as both a curatorial guide and framing device. Organised by a publishing house, this series frames video as an extension of publishing—as a format and medium which prioritises circulation and reproducibility.

Publishing as Scaffolding Talks # 6 : Sarasija Subramanian presenting Reliable Copy Wednesday, January 28th | 18:00 - 20:00 Museum of Impossible Forma Welcome to a talk by @sarasija.subramanian on @reliablecopy organized by Rab-Rab Press at @museumofimpossibleforms . Sarasija will introduce Reliable Copy’s publishing practice over the years, focussing on their (Fine) Arts Dissertations Series, facsimiles of graduate-level college dissertations by artists from The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (Gujarat, India), the first art college established in India post-Independence. Functioning as an early mode of artists’ writing which encouraged articulation, research, reflection, rigour, and documentation as key modes of learning within the largely studio-based programme, the dissertation was—and continues to be—a component which encouraged students to reflect on their studio practice and processes. She will also discuss their book ‘Modernism/Murderism: The Modern Art Debate in Kumar’ which compiles (and presents for the first time in English) a debate around modern art’s emergence into the Indian subcontinent from 1959 to 1964 between Jyoti Bhatt, then a young artist in Baroda, Pherozeshah Mehta, an art connoisseur and writer from Karachi, and readers and respondents of the Gujarati periodical ‘Kumar’. Sarasija Subramanian is an artist based in Bangalore, India, where she is also the editor of Reliable Copy, a publishing house and curatorial practice for works, projects, and writing by artists. Reliable Copy was founded in 2018, and publishes books and documents, curates exhibitions and screenings, undertakes research projects, and hosts a wide variety of public programming. It is represented by the artists Nihaal Faizal and Sarasija Subramanian. This is the sixth Publishing as Scaffolding talk organised by Rab-Rab Press. The talks are supported by the Kone Foundation @koneensaatio

⁨ مبسوطين إن ريلايبال كوبي موجودين معانا على الطاولة المشتركة في النسخة الرابعة من معرض القاهرة للكتب الفنية، ومعاهم نظرتهم المميّزة للنشر والمشاريع الفنية. ريلايبال كوبي هي دار نشر وممارسة تنظيمية بتركّز على شغل الفنانين—سواء كتب، مشاريع، أو نصوص. بيشتغلوا على نشر كتب ووثائق، وتنظيم معارض وعروض، وكمان بيعملوا مشروعات بحثية وبرامج عامة متنوعة. المؤسسة مقرّها في بانجالور في الهند، واتأسست سنة 2018، وبيمثلها الفنانين نيهال فايزال وساراسيجا سوبرامانيان. Reliable Copy joins this year’s Collective Table at the 4th edition of Cairo Art Book Fair, bringing their unique approach to publishing and artist-led projects. Reliable Copy is a publishing house and curatorial practice for works, projects, and writing by artists. Reliable Copy publishes books and documents, curates exhibitions and screenings, undertakes research projects, and hosts a wide variety of public programming. Reliable Copy is based in Bangalore, India, and was founded in 2018. It is represented by the artists Nihaal Faizal and Sarasija Subramanian. ‪@reliablecopy ‬ Image 1: The Significance and Relevance of Early Modern Indian Painters to the Contemporary Indian Art (2024) by Nilima Sheikh. Image Credit: Reliable Copy Image 2: The 1Shanthiroad Cookbook (2022) by Suresh Jayaram (Ed.). Image Credit: Relibale Copy Image 3: Native ball (2025) by Anup Mathew Thomas. Image Credit: Reliable Copy Image 4: Robbie Williams (2025) by Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Seda Naiumad, Uwe Schwarzer, Ashkan Sepahvand, and Robbie Williams. Image Credit: Reliable Copy 🗓️ مواعيد المعرض: ١١ ديسمبر: من ٦ لـ ١٠ مساءً ١٢ و١٣ ديسمبر: من ١ لـ ١٠ مساءً احصل على تذكرتك الآن من خلال الربط في البيو 🎟️ 🗓 Dates & Time December 11th: 6 PM - 10 PM December 12th & 13th: 1 PM - 10 PM Get your ticket now, link in our bio 🎟️ Visual identity b‪@ntsalcairo ‬ro #cairoartbookfair #artbookfair #bookfair #egypt #CABF4⁩

New York based artist Cooper Campbell responds to ‘Supporting Role’ by Jason Hirata, via his own framework of ‘Life-Living-as-Gesamtkunstwerk‘. Read on via link in bio or on the Reliable Copy website in the ‘Supporting Role’ page. “It is a very specific type of book; it exists somewhere between ledger and score but occupies neither condition comfortably. It is non-exhaustive in its scope and it’s by no means analytical; the texts collected have not been altered or changed in any way, save for typesetting. Nothing new was made for this book, yet it is a new book. If I were asked again, I would describe it as discreet artwork on Jason’s behalf, something new manufactured from existing material, what Jason had on hand formed into an artwork, in keeping with his practice.”

PaperBack Art Book Fair is now open and continues through 8 November. Alongside previous and recent Reliable Copy titles and our newly launched artist edition with Avinash Veeraraghavan, we are also featuring a small selection of books by other publishers and artists. These include books, catalogues, and multiples by Amshu Chukki, arshad hakim, Nihaal Faizal, Anuja Ghosalkar and Kai Tuchman, Tara Kelton, Unbidden Tongues, Sarasija Subramanian, Pure Land Press, and Suvani Suri. Come find us while stock lasts!

نلتقي بريلايبل كوبي · الهند🤝 دار نشر ومبادرة فنية تهتم بالأعمال والمشاريع والنصوص التي يقدّمها الفنانون. تأسست عام 2018 ويقع مقرها في بنغالور بالهند، وتعمل في مجالات النشر، وتنظيم المعارض، والبحث، والبرامج الثقافية، بهدف إتاحة مساحة للأصوات الفنية وإيجاد أشكال جديدة من الحوار الإبداعي. اكتشفوا أعمالهم في معرض الكتب الفنية – “PaperBack”: 📍 استوديو B6، حيّ جاكس، الدرعية، الرياض 🗓️ من الخميس 6 نوفمبر حتى السبت 8 نوفمبر 2025 ‎🎟️ احجزوا تذاكركم الآن عبر موقعنا الإلكتروني – الرابط في البايو. #حي_جاكس #مؤسسة_بينالي_الدرعية Meet Reliable Copy · India 🤝 A publishing house and curatorial practice dedicated to works, projects, and writings by artists. Based in Bangalore and founded in 2018, Reliable Copy operates across publishing, exhibitions, research, and public programming—creating a space for artistic voices and new forms of dialogue. Discover their work at PaperBack – Art Book Fair: 📍 B6 Studio, JAX District, Diriyah, Riyadh 🗓️ Thursday, November 6 to Saturday, November 8, 2025 🎟️ Get your tickets now through our website – link in bio. #PaperBack #JAXDistrict #DiriyahBiennaleFoundation⁩

Next Friday, October 10, 2025 — wiggle room with Jason Hirata, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, and Sarasija Subramanian Join artists Jason Hirata (@hiratajason ) and Natascha Sadr Haghighian (@natascha.sueder.happelmann ), in conversation with Reliable Copy’s (@reliablecopy ) editor Sarasija Subramanian (@sarasija.subramanian ) for a launch and conversation at Amant, around the books Supporting Role by Jason Hirata and Robbie Williams by Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Seda Naiumad (@seda.naiumad ), Uwe Schwarzer, Ashkan Sepahvand (@ashkan_sepahvand_artist ), and Robbie Williams, from Reliable Copy’s wiggle room series. The wiggle room series charts and compiles the writings of artists that have created a textual framework for a practice that stands at odds with the art context, offering an expanded field for participation and intervention. While Hirata’s Supporting Role looks at support as a framework for artistic practice through his texts—press releases, invoices, visual descriptions, curricula vitae—which take on the form of supporting documents, Haghighian and her collaborators offer Robbie Williams—the artist, not the singer—as a figure to expose the mechanisms of outsourced artistic production and the myth of the solo artist. 🔗 Learn more and RSVP using the link in our bio. #AmantNY

Launching: ‘Native ball’ by Anup Mathew Thomas 4pm to 7pm Wednesday, 24th September 2025 at 002, Serena, Lloyd Road, Cooke Town, Bangalore Join us at the Reliable Copy/Press Works office in Cooke Town for the launch of ‘Native ball’ by Anup Mathew Thomas, published by Reliable Copy and DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program. “’Native ball’ is a collection of four bodies of works set in Kerala. A compendium on various phenomena, it brings together moments from alternative histories of a culture and region, some of which are based on commonalities that may be odd but significant. It puts forward the breakdown of plans, inescapable outcomes, and the future as a space ripe for speculation. Comprising 43 colour plates and 33 texts in both English and Malayalam, the book is a record of a people and place—filled with overlaps, intersections, insights, and misunderstandings.” To pre-order the book, please visit: /