Surfaces Utiles

Surfaces Utiles brings artistic and typographic practices to the fore that are self-taught or that evolve in the blur between professionalism and amateurism. With each publication, Surfaces Utiles fields alternative economic models for the publishing industry and its accomplices, especially by appropriating and hacking standardised printing processes. A case in point is their publication of La Perruque, a 1 x 90 cm magazine printed in the margins of regular documents, flagging nonstandard type specimens. At the Brussels Ass Book Fair, Surfaces Utiles presents Publi Fluor. Affaires de lettres à Bruxelles | Letterzaken in Brussel | Letter Business in Brussels, which showcases the self-adhesive letters that Chrystel Crickx used to cut out by hand and sell by the piece in her shop in Schaerbeek.