Avocado Ibuprofen, “Amber”

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RRose Editions, 2026.

« Amber is a book of texts I have gleaned and polished from material originally written for the Instagram account @avocado_ibuprofen over the past six years. Amber is an offline archive for these texts, as well as an autonomous publication that you can read without further knowledge of, or interest in, the account. Writing for the platform brought forth a certain register, a voice that was more the voice of an account than, strictly, my voice. The writing was shaped by Instagram’s algorithm: by what was popular, by what angered the users. The writing was cybernetic, gloopy and also a bit sad in that way. »

Jaakko Pallasvuo

« Amber is an extraordinary achievement, drawn from the most ordinary materials of art making: long hours in the studio, battles for funding, exhibition mounting, doubt, indecision, intoxication, compulsory socialising. The book evokes a portrait of a humanistic cyborg as a young artist. A vertiginous thrill of exactitude runs through each piece, sustained by a precise commitment to its own necessity—at once inspiring and quietly life-supporting from page to page. I may never finish this book. It resists resolution, and its sense of time is poly-circular. That resistance is part of its comfort. Each time I open it, I find myself in another head-spin—mine or the author’s. Truth and the unverifiable collide. Reading it is a pleasure in itself: the pearl-shaped thoughts of Avocado Ibuprofen are stylish, witty, accelerated, evaporating before they have time to age. Neat and faintly apocalyptic, they are immediately quotable, like a choir of refrigerator magnets—something off of Patricia Lockwood’s fridge. I find myself laughing out loud, again today, at the same two words, still standing in the same position. »

Raimundas Malašauskas

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Edition of 300 copies. 352 pages. 12 x 19 cm. Thread sewn softcover. Printed on Munken Print Cream 80g + Munken Pure 300g. ISBN : 979-10-981814-0-5