Reliable Copy

Reliable Copy is an Indian independant publishing house and curatorial practice dedicated to the realisation and circulation of works, projects, and writing by artists. Reliable Copy publishes books and documents, curates exhibitions, undertakes research projects, organises workshops, and hosts a wide variety of programming.
Reliable Copy is based in Bangalore, and was founded in 2018. It is represented by the artists Nihaal Faizal, Sarasija Subramanian, and Stuti Bhavsar.
 
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18 titles
 
Natascha Sadr Haghighian - Robbie Williams
Natascha Sadr Haghighian
Robbie Williams
2025
English edition
forthcoming
A collective artists' book based on a fictional character by Natascha Sadr Haghighian.
Anup Mathew Thomas - Native ball
Anup Mathew Thomas
Native ball
2025
bilingual edition (English / Malayalam)
forthcoming
"Native ball" is a collection of four bodies of works set in Kerala. A compendium on various phenomena, it brings together moments from alternative histories of a culture and region, some of which are based on commonalities that may be odd but significant.
Nihaal Faizal - RTI-1242-2021–PMR
Nihaal Faizal
RTI-1242-2021–PMR
2025
English edition
A public record document containing the list of all artworks that hang in the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's official residence, as submitted by the Prime Minister's Office in response to a Right-to-Information application filed by the artist Nihaal Faizal (artists' book).
Vikram Divecha - Short Circuits
Vikram Divecha
Short Circuits
2025
English edition
Short Circuits features essays, interviews, and documentation that highlight Dubai based artist Vikram Divecha's interest in the often invisible structures of planning, construction, demolition and maintenance. It centres on his long-term collaborations with workers, contractors and decision-makers who shape the cities of the United Arab Emirates and beyond.
Jason Hirata - Supporting Role
Jason Hirata
Supporting Role
2024
English edition
A collection of the artist's writings from 2019 to 2024.
Nilima Sheikh - The Significance and Relevance of Early Modern Indian Painters to the Contemporary Indian Art
Nilima Sheikh
The Significance and Relevance of Early Modern Indian Painters to the Contemporary Indian Art
2024
English edition
The Significance and Relevance of Early Modern Indian Painters to the Contemporary Indian Art, written in 1971, reevaluates the legacies of painting inherited by the artist Nilima Sheikh.
Kiran Subbaiah - Melancholia in the Age of Mechanization
Kiran Subbaiah
Melancholia in the Age of Mechanization
2024
English edition
Indian artist Kiran Subbaiah reevaluates the history of Modernism, through its ideals of growth and progress, as one steeped in contradictions around industrialisation and its effects on society.
At the kitchen table
At the kitchen table
2024
English edition
(last copies available!)
An exhibition guide for a multi-part show conceived by Reliable Copy in India, featuring a range of cookbooks, videos, and artworks around food, by a strong grouping of practices.
Leone Contini - Human Pelvis, Bitter Radish
Leone Contini
Human Pelvis, Bitter Radish
2024
English edition
(last copies available!)
This publication features a project by Leone Contini looking into the canned food available during the war of Caporetto in 1917 and especially its iconography. It brings together an essay by the artist along with reproductions of a selection of his drawings.
David Robbins - High Entertainment
David Robbins
High Entertainment
2023
English edition
High Entertainment by David Robbins argues for a category of cultural production that combines the experimental ethos of art with the accessibility of entertainment.
Praneet Soi - Urban Kitsch
Praneet Soi
Urban Kitsch
2022
English edition
Urban Kitsch, originally written in 1996, explores the forms of vernacular visual culture that emerged in the city of Baroda following the liberalisation of the Indian economy.
Pherozeshah Rustomji Mehta - Modernism/Murderism - The Modern Art Debate in Kumar
Jyoti Bhatt, Pherozeshah Rustomji Mehta
Modernism/Murderism – The Modern Art Debate in Kumar
2022
English edition
Modernism/Murderism brings together, for the first time in English, a forgotten debate on Modern Art that took place in the pages of India's Gujarati-language literary periodical Kumar between 1959 and 1964.
Mochu - Nervous Fossils - Syndromes of the Synthetic Nether
Mochu
Nervous Fossils – Syndromes of the Synthetic Nether
2022
English edition
A surrealist anticipation novel by the Indian artist.
Pushpamala N - Sculptor\'s Notebook
Pushpamala N
Sculptor's Notebook
2022
English edition
In Sculptor's Notebook, originally written in 1985, the artist Pushpamala N evaluates the artistic practice that she had been developing until then.
Suresh Jayaram - Bangalore\'s Lalbagh - A Chronicle of the Garden and the City
Suresh Jayaram
Bangalore's Lalbagh – A Chronicle of the Garden and the City
2021
English edition
(last copies available!)
Bangalore's Lalbagh is a chronicle and anecdotal narrative of the city and its oldest garden—the Lalbagh Botanical Garden— where the author, Suresh Jayaram, has grown up around.
The 1Shanthiroad Cookbook
The 1Shanthiroad Cookbook
2020
English edition
The 1Shanthiroad Cookbook brings together a collection of recipes from the community kitchen of 1Shanthiroad Studio/Gallery, compiled and edited by the space's founding director, Suresh Jayaram.
Mario Santanilla - Still Life - Mirrors and windows
Mario Santanilla
Still Life – Mirrors and windows
2020
English edition
(last copies available!)
Moving across personal anecdotes, moments in history, cultural memory, and scientific did-you-knows, Mario Santanilla's Still Life takes the reader on a virtual journey across a range of sights and sites.
Ravikumar Kashi - Flexing Muscles
Ravikumar Kashi
Flexing Muscles
2019
bilingual edition (English / Kannada)
sold out
A Kannada-English bilingual book of essays on the culture of flex banners put up by pro-Kannada outfits and political parties.
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