24/01/2026
This new issue of the dead pages, (no.5!) is now available through our Webshop.
Dead Pages No. 5: Parasites unfolds as an interspecies collaboration carved by bugs and completed by and .magdalena . In its fifth iteration, Dead Pages turns its attention to the strange intimacies between decay and desire. Parasite begins with a chance discovery: a Chinese manuscript from 1898, found by .magdalena and and Pogo in Tokyo’s Jimbo-cho neighborhood. The object itself was already transformed, its pages meticulously tunneled by an unknown insect. The bug’s silent labor etched filigrees through the paper, never touching the ink, as if respecting language while feasting on its vessel. From this devoured relic, the artists constructed a new book-object: a hybrid work where paper, image, and absence intertwine. Into the eroded manuscript they inserted images from a 1970s entomological dictionary—a taxonomy of the creatures that consume, preserve, and annotate through destruction. The resulting work, rephotographed and reassembled, forms the tactile architecture of Dead Pages No. 5.
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