REI / れい

REI / れい is a project documenting and archiving modern, postmodern and metabolist architecture in Japan, through a photographic lens.

2015 - ongoing

Offset printed publication, soon to be published in 2025, by SO-RI.

13x18.5cm, 528 pages.

OBERFLÄCHE

Oberfläche is a collection of architectural photographs I took in the last couple of years. All the images push you closer to the surface of the architecture, leading you into a narrow field of view.

2020 - 2023

RISO printed publication, published at SO-RI in 2023.

Printed in Black and Fluor. Pink.
19.5x25.5cm, 132 pages.

Inkjet prints mounted on aluminium, framed in oak behind glass.

Exhibited at:

2021.06.19 - 2021.09.16 Out of Office, Noordduinen (Koksijde, BE)

2020.09.05 - 2020.09.27 PhotoTwens 2020, 30CC/Kapel (Leuven, BE)

NINE JAPANESE CASTLES

On his trips to Japan Marnicq noticed something peculiar. A type of architecture kept popping up. Castle-like structures in the image of a Disney movie or a plastic toy store.

Marnicq Roebben shows nine of these structures.

Originally published as Four Japanese Castles in 2021, the series got extended in 2025.

2019, 2021, 2024

RISO printed publication Nine Japanese Castles, published at SO-RI in 2024.

12.5x15cm, 10 pages, printed in Aqua, Black, Green and Orange.

RISO printed publication Four Japanese Castles, published at SO-RI in 2021.

20x24cm, 32 pages, printed in Fluorescent Orange, Green and Black.

ARE MY FEET PHOTOGRAPHS OF MY SANDALS?

In this short text and publication I invite you to think about the defining features of photography. What is a photograph, and what is not? How do we define photography?

2019

Never published.

THE SCULPTURE HOUSE

The Sculpture House (La Maison-Sculpture) is a house designed and built by Jacques Gillet, Félix Roulin and René Greisch. In this small risographic publication I invite you to vist the house with me and explore its sculptural dimension.

2017

RISO printed publication, self-published.

16 pages printed in Bright Red and Green.

EMPATHY AND MARXISM
Critiques on magnification and iconification in mass politics.

In this installation, I try to show what happens when theory and ideas are foresaken in the pursuit of the person in politics. When the person behind the politics becomes more important than the ideas presented, danger arises.

2011 - 2012

Laserjet prints, glued together in booklets. Ripped from the booklet and hung on the wall in seperate A4 sized sheets of paper.

3 books on coloured cardboard, framed behind glass.

1 inkjet print, framed behind glass.

Exhibited at:

2012.09.13 - 2012.10.21 Bredaphoto Festival 2012: Homo Empathicus, Breda's Museum (Breda, NL).

2012.03.22 - 2012.03.25 Fernard Baudin Student Publications, Komplot (Brussels, BE).

MARNICQ ROEBBEN