Dublin-based graphic artist Eva Vitkute gathers a series of drawings of slightly distorted everyday objects into a limited edition risograph zine, using the logic of tattoo flash sheets and the information loss of reproduction as conceptual tools.
The zine was not planned. Eva Vitkute draws objects, scans them to document the work and moves on. It is just how she works. At some point a small stack of those drawings revealed a through line: physical, mundane things meeting something more atmospheric, objects that accumulated a symbolic weight through their slight distortion and the tension between the familiar and the uneasy. She pulled them together, made some fold-up zines, and that was that.
“My personal practice tends to play with tension and a slight sense of unease,” Vitkute says, “combining things that feel like they should be at odds with each other.”
Hardware / Software holds that quality in its layout as much as its subject matter. The arrangement of objects on the page draws from tattoo culture and flash sheets, items placed with that same logic of contained repetition and catalogue-like organisation. A one-colour riso print in black on 110gsm Context Birch felt right for a project that was never meant to be precious about itself.
The subtitle offers its own dry commentary: A Zine About Attachment That Doesn’t Feel Particularly Attached. The reproduction process is built into the concept. Working across riso and xerox-inspired processes, Vitkute uses the information loss inherent in reproduction as a tool, the slight degradation of scanning and printing contributing to rather than diminishing the meaning of objects that are already slightly off.
Printed in an edition of twenty by Way Bad Press in Dublin, the zine is a small and deliberate artefact from a practice that consistently treats print culture as the right context for image-making that wants to exist as an object rather than documentation.
Eva Vitkute is a Dublin-based graphic artist working across print culture, image-making and material experimentation.
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Hardware / Software, 2025. Risograph zine, black on 110gsm Context Birch. Edition of 20. Printed by Way Bad Press, Dublin.
