Cecilia Vicuña has collaborated with Book Works Studio to create a new special edition of her book, Saborami: Expanded facsimile edition (Book Works, 2024).
Cecilia Vicuña Saborami: Expanded facsimile edition (Special Edition, 2025)
Edition of eleven
From £1,200
Cecilia Vicuña created Saborami in the aftermath of the September 1973 military coup in Chile. Combining poetry, journal entries, documentation of artworks including assemblages and paintings, the book was published in Devon, England in an edition of by the artist-led Beau Geste Press. It was one of the first artistic responses to the violence of the fascist junta.
This special expanded facsimile edition of Saborami features a unique small “precario” (her term for her tiny sculptures made from found materials) specially chosen by the artist, fixed to a handmade cover. Each copy is handbound and foil blocked by Book Works Studio, and signed and numbered by the artist in an edition of eleven.
Cecilia Vicuña, Saborami special edition, Book Works (2025)
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Established in 1984, we are dedicated to supporting new work by emerging artists. Our projects are initiated by invitation, open submission, and through guest-curated projects. Book Works consists of a publishing and commissioning department; and a studio specialising in binding, box-making and multiples.
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The Book Works Studio offers a specialist bespoke service for a range of clients, from artists, designers, galleries, and businesses. We provide binding solutions, develop prototypes and specialise in unique book artworks, boxes, and portfolios. We have an extensive archive, and offer tailored educational events, and bookbinding courses. The Studio generates income from clients and is self-sufficient.
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Book Works Publishing is dedicated to supporting new work by emerging artists. Our projects are initiated by invitation, open submission, and through guest-curated projects and include publishing, a lecture and seminar programme, exhibitions, the development of an online archive, and artists’ surgeries and workshops.
Our audience is vital to our work. The process of engaging and developing our audience is initiated with our commissioning programme, and driven through all aspects of our activities, particularly our public programme of events, our workshops, artists’ surgeries and education activities, and through our interest in collaborating with other organisations and libraries. Our programme of commissions is diverse, and reflects our commitment not just to work with cultural workers from all backgrounds, but to invest in networks and programmes that engage, and develop and create new artistic voices.
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Includes new projects with: Amy Ching-Yan Lam, Sofia Niazi, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha and Jimmy Robert, Prem Sahib, and Cecilia Vicuña. Our recent Open Submission is Arrhythmia, guest edited by Katrina Palmer, has commissioned new work from Andrew Colarusso, Roy Claire Potter, Kamwangi Njue, and Alice Walter. Katrina Palmer is also the author of The Touch Report, released December 2024.
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