Giselle's Books

One Night Stand
with Ben Redhead, Good Press & Lunchtime Gallery
from 6PM, 14 March 2026
Giselle’s Books · Marseille (Korsec)

One Night Stand

with Ben Redhead
Good Press
Lunchtime Gallery

On the occasion of the release of
Ben Redhead. Cows and other poems.
Lunchtime Gallery, 2025.

14.03.2026 – from 6PM
Giselle’s Books · Marseille (Korsec)

Ben Redhead is a writer originally from Leeds, who has lived a third of his life in Glasgow, and is now based in Marseille. He has previously had work published by Worms Magazine, Sticky Fingers and Death of Workers While Building Skyscrapers. Cows and other poems is his debut pamphlet. 

Cows and other poems is a collection of recent poems by Ben Redhead.

“Erudite poetry emerges from the darkness of dreams. Redhead’s debut is where « letters go blind » —a penumbral precision, a lyric register built like a bothy: austere yet lit with conscience. Sensibility is awake here, embodied in verse both elemental and exact. There are flax-field passions and city cowsheds; a rural roughness meeting a busy sidewalk fag-end. It is poetry that roams the earth as it remembers the mind.”
— Eleanor Tennyson

“It takes a particular kind of poet to come up with “someone was handing out relief to all / but it’s blame-poisoned / as soon as you touch it it’s your fault”. And yet reading Ben Redhead’s pamphlet involves the quick realization that you have stumbled upon this illusive- whispered-about-poet. Burden’s tactical aftermath (to touch is to be burdened) are the points of drama in these poems I found myself most moved by; the betrayals of “real real real” so sharp. The reoccurring lexical instabilities, suffused with starving horses and so much love – not just relational love but love for Palestine, love to abolish the police –come together so well in these beautiful, strange little poems. Ah, you think towards the end of the pamphlet, I hear the moan with which the world rebirths itself.” 
— Leo Bussi 

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Equilibrium by Samuel Haitz

Limited edition poster by Samuel Haitz, produced on the occasion of The Column #2 at Giselle’s Books, Marseille, 2026.

Equilibrium by Samuel Haitz

Equilibrium, 2026

by Samuel Haitz

Limited edition poster by Samuel Haitz, produced on the occasion of The Column #2 at Giselle’s Books, Marseille, 2026.

Publisher:  GISELLE’S BOOKS
Release date: 21ST FEBRUARY 2026

EDITION OF 25 + 5 AP
Format: 118.9 x 84.1 cm

price: 50 €

SHIPPING (EU) : 10 €
SHIPPING (UK) : 15 €

PUBLISHED BY GISELLE'S BOOKS

2025 One Night Stands at Giselle’s Books
26 February 2026
Montez Press Radio · Penearth Centre, London (online)

2025 One Night Stands at Giselle’s Books

26 February 2026, 3PM
Montez Press Radio · Penearth Centre, London (online)

One Night Stand is a series of nocturnal readings at Giselle’s Books, Marseille. Each session occurs once, in the theatrical sense of a one-night stand: a single engagement, without reprise. Drawing on the logic of early cabaret, literature is approached as something to be served as much as read. Texts are delivered aloud; drinks are composed for the evening by invited writers. Both are prepared for the moment and consumed in real time. Language and liquid passing through, then gone.

Mégane Brauer graduated from the Institut des Beaux-Arts de Besançon in 2018. Working with text and installation, her practice focuses on questions of class, transforming objects and situations associated with working-class life and granting them a presence they are usually denied.
Aurelia Guo is a writer and researcher based in London. She is a visiting fellow at London South Bank University. She is the author of World of Interiors (Divided, 2022).
Jess Cole (she/her) is a writer based in South London. She has written for Vogue, The New York Times, The Guardian, and is a regular contributor to MARFA. Her creative practice spans dramaturgy, performance pieces, and prose. Cole finds wit—especially when it’s quick and sharp—deeply sexy, a sentiment that pulses through her writing.
Wayne Koestenbaum has published 23 books of poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, including Stubble Archipelago, Ultramarine, The Cheerful Scapegoat, Figure It Out, Camp Marmalade, My 1980s & Other Essays, The Anatomy of Harpo Marx, Humiliation, Hotel Theory, Circus, Andy Warhol, Jackie Under My Skin, and The Queen’s Throat (nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award). His next book, a novel, My Lover, the Rabbi, will be published by FSG (in the U.S.) and Granta (in the U.K.) in March 2026.
Slow Reading Club (SRC) is a semi-fictional reading group initiated and run by Bryana Fritz and Henry Andersen. Since 2016, in numerous contexts, they have rehearsed alternatives to the kinds of reading they were taught in school, actively suppressing semantic content through strobe lights, strange postures, sociality, and toxins. Operating at the contact zones between reader and text, text and text, reader and reader, they attempt to build a practice from within the unstable space of reading itself.

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Equilibrium by Samuel Haitz

Limited edition poster by Samuel Haitz, produced on the occasion of The Column #2 at Giselle’s Books, Marseille, 2026.

Insula, Theo Casciani – Release
co-organized with Sissi Club
from 6PM, 21 February 2026
Giselle’s Books · Marseille (Convalescents)

Insula, Theo Casciani
A conversation with Lucas Ferraço Nassif
moderated by Francesco Leto

co-organized with sissi club
7 – 9PM, 21 February 2026
Giselle’s Books · Marseille (Convalescents)

Typography and confection by Marie-Mam Sai Bellier
Bergamot candy by Kévin Laouar (Confiserie Lefèvre Lemoine, Nancy)
Die-cut stamp by Thomas Noël
Photography by Tom de Peyret

Théo Casciani is an author. Born in 1995, he studied humanities and social sciences at SciencesPo. and mathematics at Panthéon-Sorbonne University, in Paris, before joining La Cambre, in Brussels, where he is now a lecturer. Retina, his first novel, was published by Éditions P.O.L in 2019 and will be out in English and Polish in 2026 on HELA Press. His fictions, translated into different languages and awarded several prizes, have been presented through multiple forms in France and abroad, including WIELS [BE], Reference.Point [UK], Kyoto Art Center [JP], Centre Pompidou [FR], Montez Press [US], Spielart Festival München [DE], Terranova [SP], Théâtre National de Chaillot [FR], KW [DE], Beyeler Foundation [CH], Goldsmiths [UK], Soto [JP], LG Arts Center [KR], Palais de Tokyo [FR], Göteborg Opera [SW], Actoral [FR], Lafayette Anticipations [FR], Trauma [DE], Spazio Maiocchi [IT] and the Louvre [FR]. He has also contributed to publications such as AOC, Kaleidoscope, Alphabet, Klima, Habitante, Possession Immédiate, 90antiope, Magma, Mouvement, European Review of Books and The Brooklyn Rail. These texts have led to various collaborations, for example for projects with Damien Jalet, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Arca, Jonathan Glazer and the Chair of Narrative Medecine at Bordeaux Hospital, residencies at Villa Médicis, Providenza or Hôtel Experimenta and a research seminar in Belgium, in 2021. His second novel, Insula, has been published by P.O.L in January 2026.

Francesco Leto is a writer and translator. The author of several novels published in Italy, he is notably the translator of the work of Guillaume Dustan, whose discovery he helped introduce to the Italian public. His work explores the sensitive territories of desire, memory, and language, with particular attention to bodies and minority voices.

Lucas Ferraço Nassif holds a Ph.D. in Literature from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. He is a researcher at the Cinema and Philosophy Laboratory, part of the NOVA Institute of Philosophy, and a member of the Portuguese Center of Psychoanalysis. He is also the director and editor of the films Reinforced Concrete, Being Boring, and Unfamiliar Ceiling/The Beast; as well as the author of Missing Links, published by Barakunan, and awarded the Best Monograph of 2023 by the Association of Moving Image Researchers (AIM) in Portugal. In 2025, his book Unconscious/Television was published by Becoming Press.

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Equilibrium by Samuel Haitz

Limited edition poster by Samuel Haitz, produced on the occasion of The Column #2 at Giselle’s Books, Marseille, 2026.

The Column #1
by Emma Bombail
19 December 2025 – 18 February 2026
Giselle’s Books · Marseille (Korsec)

The Column #1
by Emma Bombail

19 December 2025 – 18 February 2026
Giselle’s Books · Marseille (Korsec)

Emma Bombail
Explain Emotion, 2025
Digital color print, 30 x 45 cm
Edition of 5

The Column #1: Emma Bombail, Explain Emotion, 2025.
Installation view, Giselle’s Books (Korsec)
The Column #1: Emma Bombail, Explain Emotion, 2025.
Installation view, Giselle’s Books (Korsec)


Emma Bombail is an artist, writer, doubter, and co-organizer of the PROPAGANDA reading series. She is currently studying English-speaking literature in Paris, France.

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Equilibrium by Samuel Haitz

Limited edition poster by Samuel Haitz, produced on the occasion of The Column #2 at Giselle’s Books, Marseille, 2026.

The Column #2
by Samuel Haitz
21 February 2026 – 17 April 2026
Giselle’s Books · Marseille (Korsec)

The Column #2
by Samuel Haitz

21 February – 17 April 2026
Giselle’s Books · Marseille (Korsec)

« I just made a show of rephotographed pages from a magazine I bought at a second-hand bookstore in Brussels. I got a few publications there, each cost around 10 euros. All of them were sealed in plastic, so I could only base my decision on the cover and back. The edition for Giselle’s is a reproduction of the back cover of the magazine I used as source material for my exhibition at Pech in Vienna. On it, two male models are depicted in perfect equilibrium. This material feeds a very specific kind of desire: one that never leaves the realm of fantasy. The most exciting thing is not doing it. »

Samuel Haitz

Samuel Haitz
Equilibrium, 2026
Inkjet-print on poster paper,  118.9 x 84.1 cm
Edition of 25 + 5 AP.


Samuel Haitz is a Swiss artist. His work addresses the legacies and concepts of artistic practice, as well as desire and its projections. He has held solo and duo exhibitions at Pech (Vienna, AT, 2026); GROTTO (Berlin, DE, 2024); Triangolo (Cremona, IT, 2024); All Stars (Lausanne, CH, 2022, with Julie Beaufils); Sangt Hipolyt (Berlin, DE, 2022); Cabaret Voltaire (Zurich, CH, 2021); and Plymouth Rock (Zurich, CH, 2019), among others. Group exhibitions include Halle für Kunst Lüneburg (Lüneburg, DE, 2025); Good or Trash (Paris, FR, 2025); Clearing NY/LA (Basel, CH, 2025); Triangolo (Cremona, IT, 2024); Swiss Art Awards (Basel, CH, 2024); Etablissement d’en face (Brussels, BE, 2024). In 2025, he was a resident at WIELS (Brussels, BE) and was awarded the Kunstkredit Basel Prize.

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Equilibrium by Samuel Haitz

Limited edition poster by Samuel Haitz, produced on the occasion of The Column #2 at Giselle’s Books, Marseille, 2026.

Giselle Salon 3
co-organized with Maria Jooyoung
19-21 December 2025
Giselle’s Books · Marseille (Korsec)

Giselle Salon 3

Giselle Salon 3
co-organized with Maria Jooyoung

with

51 Personae
Aprilsnow
Fold Unfold
Display Distribute
LIGHT LOGISTICS
Limestone Books
Loneliness
Manyi Chan
Mediabus
Moroyoung
Multiple Spirits
Nomad Papaya
Workroom

19 – 21 December 2025
Giselle’s Books · 10 Rue Maurice Korsec, Marseille.

Giselle Salon 3

Giselle Salon is back with an edition co-organized with editor Maria Jooyoung focusing on small publishing initiatives across Asia.

From Friday onwards, this will be a rare occasion to catch titles of a dozen publishers working across diverse formats, languages, and contexts. Bringing together independent presses from East and Southeast Asia, the edition highlights how small publishing operates as both a creative practice and a critical infrastructure -one that responds to local urgencies while remaining deeply interconnected.

The selection spans artist books, experimental print, theory, fiction, and hybrid publications that often circulate outside mainstream distribution channels. Through the lens of small-scale publishing, the salon foregrounds collaboration, translation, and alternative modes of circulation, offering visitors a chance not only to browse and purchase books, but also to encounter the ideas, communities, and labor behind them.

Limited quantities
All proceeds go to publishers 🫶

Giselle’s Books
10 Rue Maurice Korsec, Marseille

Friday 19th December from 6PM
Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st from 2PM

51 Personae

51 Personae is a self-sustaining independent art publishing project, believing that publishing is both an urgent and valid artistic practice. It places special emphasis on life experiences in Asia and the Third World, as well as marginalized voices under suppression, exploring the contemporary forms, possibilities and potential of “realism” in art as expressive actions.

Aprilsnow

Aprilsnow Press is a small publishing house based in Daegu, Korea. Launched in the year 2013, it publishes a small number of books per year, mostly photobooks. Run by design writer Kay Jun and book designer Jeong Jae-wan, Aprilsnow Press evolves around three keywords; photography, text and design. Having background in graphic design, both Kay Jun and Jeong Jaewan see publishing as part of their project of questioning the relationship between photography, text and design. Each book published by Aprilsnow Press is thus interpreted as a live platform of practicing the relationship of these three keywords.

Fold Unfold

Fold Unfold Press is a publishing house based in Taipei, Taiwan. It was created by Che Yeh with the intention of verbing publications, producing and distributing moments that printed matters fold and unfold themselves.

Occasionally, people will find them at bookfairs, in the neighborhood, curating shows and hosting gatherings.

Display Distribute & LIGHT LOGISTICS

Display Distribute is a thematic inquiry, distribution service, now and again exhibition space, and sometimes shop operated by a roving cast of conceptual shop girls and co-conspirators. Seeping via the capricious circulation patterns of low-end globalisation into other subaltern networks and grammars, Display Distribute’s long-term, experimental infrastructure LIGHT LOGISTICS has recently delved into a ‘courier-torial’ approach to socio-material assembly and production, manifest via recent appearances with Winona (with LIN Yezi; Brussels, BE), Greylight Projects (with XIANG Junhao; Heerlen, NL), and lumbung Kios (with Krista JANTOWSKI; international). Elaine W. Ho was LIGHT LOGISTICS Courier of the Month for August 2016, and has been carrying ever since.

Limestone Books

Limestone Books is an art book shop, library, RISO printing workshop, publisher and community space, with a particular focus on non-Western perspectives and underrepresented voices. It was founded in 2022 in Maastricht, The Netherlands, by a curatorial collective consisting of Jhen Chen, Liang-Kai Yu, Emily Shin-Jie Lee, HSIEH I Hsuan, and Chang YuHsin. We envision ourselves as a bookshop, but not in the traditional profit-driven sense. Instead, we view the economic perspective as a focal point where we can practice radical experimentation within the art publishing sphere.

Loneliness

Loneliness Books is a bookstore and publishing house that collects books and zines from across Asia addressing queerness, gender, feminism, loneliness, and solidarity, with a focus on weaving together the small and often overlooked voices of the region. Its distinctive selection offers insight into Asia’s diverse cultures and social movements. By valuing individual voices and fostering encounters with the stories of unknown others, it seeks to create spaces and publications through which those experiencing loneliness may find a sense of warmth and solidarity.

Manyi Chan

An essay investigating the uncanny similarities between the process of ‘frying an egg’ and ‘taking a photograph’. Framed through sociologist Herbert Blumer’s theory of ‘symbolic interactionism’.

Mediabus

Mediabus is a small publishing house based in Seoul, founded in 2007 by designers and planners. It engages in publishing and distributing various forms of art-related publications while also organizing exhibitions, workshops, and other events. Since March 2010, it has been operating The Book Society, a bookstore and project space in Seoul. Through this platform, it not only sells independent publications but also hosts study programs, artist and designer talks, and other events. Since its inception, mediabus has participated in various art book fairs across Tokyo, New York, Berlin, Paris, London, Bangkok, Singapore, Shanghai, Taipei, and Sharjah, among others. Through these activities, it introduces and distributes Korean art books and independent publications internationally.

Moroyoung

“Moroyoung” is a publishing project founded in 2024 in Taiwan and focusing on the works of young Taiwanese creators in politics, landscapes, and unique scenic aesthetics of Taiwan and East Asia. The name “Moroyoung” is derived from the Taiwanese word “bô-lōo-iōng,” meaning “not useful,” a common criticism from elders towards young artists in Taiwan.

Multiple Spirits

Multiple Spirits is a bilingual queer feminist art zine based in and emerging from Japan. The term “queer” is used as a temporary umbrella, indicating a sense of discomfort with a society structured around heterosexual norms. This provisional usage reflects the aspiration to develop new languages and vocabularies capable of articulating spaces and possibilities that have not yet come into being but are nonetheless necessary.

The project situates itself within the historical continuum of feminisms and understands feminist thinking as a means of dismantling discrimination related to gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, and class within society. This approach seeks to counter narrowed interpretations of feminism that have been historically distorted in Japan and internationally by gender essentialism. Feminist thinking is not treated as a fixed or prescriptive identity; rather, it is understood as a practice aimed at dismantling historically and socially constructed identity fictions and fostering political yet fluid subjectivities.

Multiple Spirits functions as a space for practicing these ideas and for developing new languages for artistic expression. “Queer feminism” is approached as a site of boundary-crossing—across nations and sexualities—evoking a state of suspension, akin to waiting in an airport before departure, while remaining grounded in the physical and social realities of embodied existence.

Nomad Papaya

Nomad Papaya BOOKS is an art book and zine publishing house focusing on transition of culture(s) and identit(ies), based in Taiwan and Germany.
The founder started questioning the notions of identity & nationality but get really confused by himself, so he decided to make art books and collaborate with people, try (not) to answer and form new ideologies and relations.
What is changing when you cross the border, leaving your own history/home behind?
Can encounter form new Identities ?

Workroom

Workroom Press is a publishing house and graphic design studio. Launched in 2006, it has mainly published books in the fields of art, design, literature, humanities, music, and fashion. Since 2013, it has run a joint imprint, Workroom Specter, with Sulki and Min.

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Equilibrium by Samuel Haitz

Limited edition poster by Samuel Haitz, produced on the occasion of The Column #2 at Giselle’s Books, Marseille, 2026.

One Night Stand
with Slow Reading Club
from 6PM, 21 December 2025
Giselle’s Books · Marseille (Korsec)

One Night Stand

with
Slow Reading Club

21.12.2025 – from 6pm
Giselle’s Books · Marseille

Slow Reading Club (SRC) is a semi-fictional reading group initiated and run by Bryana Fritz and Henry Andersen.
Since 2016, in numerous contexts, they have rehearsed alternatives to the kinds of reading they were taught in school, actively suppressing semantic content through strobe lights, strange postures, sociality, and toxins.
Operating at the contact zones between reader and text, text and text, reader and reader, they attempt to build a practice from within the unstable space of reading itself.

Répondeur is an extensive account of SRC’s practice in collective reading sessions, exhibitions, and textual bootlegging. Imagined as a scroll, with a rhyme structure and typesetting by Will Holder, the book brings together facsimiles of SRC readers, a wide-ranging interview by Alicja Melzacka, new texts by Joyelle McSweeney and Bill Dietz, and visual work and translations by SRC. These discrete elements are interwoven into a complex, shimmering whole, delighting in the ruptures and elisions of one text’s move into the next.

Slow Reading Club: Répondeur, with Alicja Melzacka, Joyelle McSweeney, Bill Dietz, designed by Will Holder. 2025, Published by Occasional Papers.

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Equilibrium by Samuel Haitz

Limited edition poster by Samuel Haitz, produced on the occasion of The Column #2 at Giselle’s Books, Marseille, 2026.

Bangkok Art Book Fair
5 – 7 December 2025
Bangkok Art & Cultural Centre · Bangkok, Thailand

Bangkok Art Book Fair

5 – 7 December 2025
Bangkok Art & Cultural Centre · Bangkok, Thailand

Bringing together diverse voices at the intersection of artistic publishing, activism, academic research, and community practices, the Bangkok Art Book Fair aim to build a dynamic network; connecting independent publishers and art book enthusiasts across the region, fostering collaboration, and expanding the ways knowledge and creativity are shared. The 7th edition of Bangkok Art Book Fair is themed ‘You Can Sit With Us,’ recognizing that art books and independent publications are more than just print—they are spaces of gathering, exchange, and shared experience.

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Equilibrium by Samuel Haitz

Limited edition poster by Samuel Haitz, produced on the occasion of The Column #2 at Giselle’s Books, Marseille, 2026.

Bulletin B – Issue 1

Bulletin B – Issue 1

Edited by Maria Jooyoung

The first issue of Bulletin B presents contributions by multimedia artist Kwon Heesoo, an essay by Zhou Ruixin, archival material from Halla Pai Huhm, and poems by Lee Hyemi, translated by Lee Joan.

Publisher:  GISELLE’S BOOKS
Release date: 25TH NOVEMBER 2025

1ST EDITION OF 500
Format: 31 x 22 cm

ISBN : 9782959831201

price: 12 €

PUBLISHED BY GISELLE'S BOOKS