Blue Plate Special, Oysters, Paris 2024 🦪🇫🇷🍽️
Oysters I had with @nonlinearbooks after a long day at @polycopies in 2021 💙
Edition of 5. available via @auc.art link in bio
With Photo London opening tomorrow, we are proud to present the latest work of our co-founder @youvalle
Artist, photographer, and the co-founder of Replika Publishing, Youvalle Levy holds a staunch interest in urbanism and the every day. She explores the beauty found in the abandoned and ignored aspects of everyday life. Her diverse body of work spans photobooks, installations, printmaking, video, and ceramics. Each piece invites viewers to reconsider their surroundings and appreciate the often-overlooked elements of urban environments.
Exhibited for the first time - "Water Writes the Stone" is an ongoing photographic project that investigates material transformation through the interaction of water, light, and clay. The series centers on photographic observations of water and stone, rendered through the cyanotype process and transferred onto hand-built ceramic tiles. By printing directly onto bisque-fired clay, the work collapses the distance between image and substrate, treating the photograph not only as representation but as a materially embedded trace.
"Blue Plate Special" (BPS) – a photographic series that is printed on handcrafted ceramic plates, using Cyanotype technique and accented with silver-coated rims. The plates are produced in a limited edition of 6+ap, with each plate being unique due to the long process of making them. The process begins with taking the photographs, mainly on 35mm film, which are then transformed into 1:1 negatives. These images are delicately printed onto the Bisque ware plates using the intricate cyanotype method. This process ensures that each plate becomes unique for a distinct interplay of variables, ranging from the subtle idiosyncrasies of the ceramic surface to nuanced factors like exposure duration and chemical mix.
Replika Publishing presents Fang: Freya Brooke Verona Copeland in conversation with Youvalle Levy and Jaime Sebastián.
This online talk centres on Fang, a recent publication by Copeland, co-published by Replika Publishing and Handshake. Developed in response to the DANA floods in Catarroja, Valencia, the work moves away from direct documentation, instead tracing the emotional and psychological aftermath of the event. Through fragments, flashbacks and imagined routes of escape, it reflects on how trauma reshapes both landscape and perception.
The conversation will explore the development of the project alongside broader questions around artist-led and collaborative publishing, considering how image-making can engage with memory, and the role of publishers in holding and translating lived experience.
Fri 17 April, 6.30pm (BST)
Online
RSVP via the Photo London link in bio.
Blue Plate Special, Oysters, Paris 2024
Youvalle Levy
@youvalle
Blue Plate Special (BPS) is a photographic series of cyanotypes printed on ceramic plates.
The plates are produced in a limited edition of 6+ap, with each plate being unique due to the long process of making them. The process begins with taking the photographs, mainly on 35mm film, which are then transformed into 1:1 negatives. These images are printed onto the Bisque ware plates using cyanotype method. This process ensures that each plate becomes unique for a distinct interplay of variables, ranging from the subtle idiosyncrasies of the ceramic surface to nuanced factors like exposure duration and chemical mix.
Edition of 6
