Books & Catalogues
Honys Torres’s practice extends beyond painting and collage into a vibrant territory where the book becomes an object, a container of gestures, and a site of intimate experimentation. Over the years, she has created a wide constellation of unique book‑objects, each one built through touch, impulse, and the transformation of everyday materials into visual language. These works operate as portable archives of her artistic universe: spaces where memory, migration, humor, and accumulation coexist without hierarchy.
From this expansive body of book‑objects, a parallel line of editorial books and catalogues has emerged—publications that document, contextualize, and expand the reach of her work. They function as both testimony and extension: records of her evolving practice and windows into the symbolic and material worlds that shape it.
This section presents a selection of available titles, chosen for the ways they illuminate the core themes of her work: the materiality of migration, the friction between order and chaos, the transformation of discarded images, and the insistence of memory as structure. Each book offers a distinct entry point into her visual language, revealing page by page the persistent, playful, and layered poetics that define Honys Torres’s artistic practice.
Detrás del espejo
Detrás del espejo is an artist’s book built from impulse: cutting, pasting, and letting each page find its own rhythm. The materials—worthless Venezuelan banknotes and free magazines collected on the streets of Zurich—shed their original function to become memory, texture, and gesture. Displaced national heroes, luxury ads, penguins, domestic objects, and personal symbols coexist on its pages, creating tensions between the solemn and the absurd, between order and chaos. Migration appears as matter rather than narrative: in what is lost, in what is gathered, in what mixes without hierarchy. It is a handmade emotional archive, a space where accumulation and friction shape a language of their own.
Zurich pop
Zürich POP is a vibrant tribute to the city of Zurich, created from the perspective of an artist who has walked its streets, experienced its traditions, and embraced its cultural rhythms. Each artwork in the book emerges from direct encounters with the city’s architecture, public spaces, and festivities, transforming them into contemporary pop icons infused with color, humor, and personal resonance.
The book highlights emblematic sites such as the Hauptbahnhof, Bahnhofstrasse, Wasserkirche, the University of Zurich, and the Landesmuseum, alongside historical figures like Ulrich Zwingli and the monumental sculpture of Karl der Grosse at the Grossmünster. It also celebrates the city’s collective rituals, including Pride at Bürkliplatz, the Sechseläuten festival with the burning of the Böögg, the joyful atmosphere of the Zurich Zoo, and the energy of Züri Fäscht, Switzerland’s largest popular festival.
Through this collection, Honys Torres offers a fresh, playful, and affectionate visual journey—an artistic homage to a city that has become home. The English edition preserves the spirit of the original while opening the experience to a broader international audience.
Year of Publication: 2026
Publisher / Production: Independent project
Place of Publication: Zurich, Switzerland
Number of Pages: 44
Format: Printed book
Dimensions: 21 × 29.7 cm (210 × 297 mm)
Editorial Design: Honys Torres
ISBN: German 978-3-9526194-1-4
Spanish 978-3-9526194-0-7
Detrás Del Espejo
Detrás del espejo is an editorial book that documents and expands the universe of the homonymous artist’s book. Through a vibrant sequence of pages combining photography, illustration, text, and graphic composition, the book reveals the creative, conceptual, and emotional process behind the work.
Organized as a visual journey, the book unfolds the layers that shape the original piece: the construction of the double gaze, the tension between public and private identity, and the presence of the body as a narrative territory. Each section functions as a window into a different moment of the project, from making‑of documentation to intimate scenes, memory fragments, and pop‑infused gestures that resonate with its distinctive editorial aesthetic.
Year of Publication: 2026
Publisher / Production: Independent project
Place of Publication: Zurich, Switzerland
Number of Pages: 76
Format: Printed book Dimensions: 21 × 29.7 cm (210 × 297 mm)
Language: Spanish
Editorial Design: Honys Torres
ISBN: 978-3-9526194-8-3
Crónicas de la piedad reloaded
Crónicas de la piedad reloaded, reimagines the historic motif of the Pietà as a contemporary critical lens. Through a series of visual chronicles, Honys Torres explores human fragility, collective memory, and the symbolic structures that shape our cultural imagination. Global iconographies—heroes, brands, instant mythologies—are dismantled and returned as fractured mirrors where the intimate and the political converge. The book offers a sharp, poetic reflection on vulnerability, resistance, and the power of images to rewrite the world.
Year of Publication: 2026
Publisher / Production: Independent project
Place of Publication: Zurich, Switzerland
Number of Pages: 44
Format: Printed boo
Dimensions: 29,7 x 21 cm ( 297 x 210 mm)
Language: Spanish
Editorial Design: Honys Torres
ISBN: 978-3-9526194-2-1
Diario de incertidumbre: pandemia
Diary of Uncertainty: Pandemic examines how the banal—what is trivial, playful, or seemingly harmless—can become a critical lens for understanding a time marked by fear, information overload, and collective fragility. Honys Torres draws on mass‑media icons, familiar animations, and symbols of contemporary visual culture to lure the viewer with a gentle surface, only to reveal beneath it a sharp political pulse.
Acting as a visual reporter, Torres captures the news of the moment, dismantles it, and transforms it into metaphor. In her hands, immediacy becomes reflection on the essential concerns of human experience—love, death, vulnerability—and on the power of images to transcend the instant and become memory. The book traces a path where the everyday becomes symptom, the ephemeral becomes sign, and the banal becomes a strategy for confronting, understanding, and rewriting the uncertainty of an era.
Year of Publication: 2026
Publisher / Production: Independent project
Place of Publication: Zurich, Switzerland
Number of Pages: 44
Format: Printed book
Dimensions: 29,7 x 21 cm ( 297 x 210 mm)
Language: Spanish
Editorial Design: Honys Torres
ISBN: 978-3-9526194-4-5
Monumento Lúdicos
Playful Monuments reinterprets the ten most searched artworks in the world through humor, color, and sharp critical insight. In an era dominated by algorithms and infinite replication, Honys Torres uses neo pop art not as decoration but as a tool for thinking: she dismantles solemnity, plays with universal icons, and turns each classical masterpiece into a conversation with the present. These pieces are not versions or parodies but personal readings that reveal what these images still say in the digital age. A vibrant journey where heritage and invention meet, and where looking becomes an act of intention, irony, and freedom.
Year of Publication: 2026
Publisher / Production: Independent project
Place of Publication: Zurich, Switzerland
Number of Pages: 44
Format: Printed book
Dimensions: 29.7 × 21 cm (297 × 210 mm)
Editorial Design: Honys Torres
Language: Spanish
ISBN: 978-3-9526194-5-2
de tin marín de do pingüe
De tin marín de do pingüe brings together a series of works created during one of the country’s most tense and fragile moments. Honys Torres chooses to speak from the small and the playful—through toys, irony, and an appearance of innocence—to look directly at a painful reality without shouting or dividing. These pieces act as a subtle form of resistance: they acknowledge what was lived, what hurt, what transformed us, and the different ways each person carried that time. The book opens a quiet space for looking and remembering, where each reader can find their own meaning, their wound, or their bittersweet smile. In difficult times, sometimes the most honest way to speak is in a low voice.
Year of Publication: 2026
Publisher / Production: Independent project
Place of Publication: Zurich, Switzerland
Number of Pages: 44
Format: Printed book
Dimensions: 29.7 × 21 cm (297 × 210 mm)
Editorial Design: Honys Torres
Language: Spanish
ISBN: 978-3-9526194-3-8
el rey desnudo
El Rey desnudo continues a visual investigation that began in 2015, when the image of King Juan Carlos I posing beside a hunted elephant in Botswana became a symbol of the widening gap between power and the public. Years later, the investigations into alleged commissions and bank accounts linked to Switzerland reignited debates around transparency and impunity, opening new fractures in the narrative surrounding the former monarch.
This publication revisits that initial work to observe how a myth shifts as public opinion changes, and how the figure of power cracks in real time. Rather than closing the story, it documents what is seen, what is said, and what remains unspoken. It is a visual chronicle of a narrative still unfolding.
Year of Publication: 2026
Publisher / Production: Independent project
Place of Publication: Zurich, Switzerland
Page Count: 20
Format: Magazine‑style publication (printed artist’s book)
Dimensions: 29.7 × 21 cm (297 × 210 mm)
Editorial Design: Honys Torres
Language: Spanish
ISBN: 978-3-9526194-6-9
heidi pop
Heidi POP examines how cultural symbols travel across geographies and acquire new meanings in the context of migration. The figure of Heidi—introduced to Venezuela through television—becomes a point of intersection between two countries that imagined one another from afar: Venezuela as the “Switzerland of the Americas” and Switzerland as a distant ideal of stability. Now living in Switzerland, the artist revisits this image to explore how memory, displacement, and everyday iconography overlap. Each work in the book engages with Swiss rituals, tensions, and cultural markers, mapping a space where Venezuelan and Swiss narratives coexist without hierarchy.
Year of Publication: 2026
Publisher / Production: Independent project
Place of Publication: Zurich, Switzerland
Page Count: 20
Format: Magazine‑style publication (printed artist’s book)
Dimensions: 29.7 × 21 cm (297 × 210 mm)
Editorial Design: Honys Torres
Language: Spanish
ISBN: 978-3-9526194-7-6
el mal
EL MAL presents a compact catalogue of contemporary evil—not the mythic or heroic kind, but the one that slips into headlines, TikTok feeds, streaming platforms, global gossip, and everyday conversations. The book gathers a cast of characters and situations where malice appears in its most familiar forms: cartoonish judges, emotional con artists, fabricated heiresses, Tinder princes, vengeful “lobas,” meddling in‑laws, and a Heidi who no longer tends goats but symbolically sets the system on fire.
Through collage, pop references, and a pulse of migrant nostalgia, the work examines how today’s culture turns evil into spectacle, commodity, and entertainment. Rather than explaining or moralizing, it observes how malice disguises itself, how it seduces, and how it becomes part of the emotional landscape of a hyper‑mediated world. In these pages, evil doesn’t bite—it sings, invoices, protests, goes viral, and smiles with suspicious confidence. And it is precisely there that it becomes most unsettling… and most irresistible.
Year of Publication: 2026
Publisher / Production: Independent project
Place of Publication: Zurich, Switzerland
Page Count: 20
Format: Magazine‑style publication (printed artist’s book)
Dimensions: 29.7 × 21 cm (297 × 210 mm)
Editorial Design: Honys Torres
Language: Spanish
ISBN: 978-3-9526194-9-0
portfolio 2021-2025
This portfolio brings together a selection of works developed by Honys Torres in Switzerland between 2021 and 2025, accompanied by a curatorial text by art historian and curator Linda Philips, who analyzes the conceptual, aesthetic, and narrative evolution of the artist during this period.
Through a critical and sensitive perspective, Philips examines how Torres weaves memory, migration, humor, ritual, and contemporary visual culture into a body of work that unfolds across multiple series and artistic languages. The portfolio includes works belonging —though not in their entirety— to the collections Heidi, Netflix, Zürich POP, Pelucas, Monumentos Lúdicos, Chanel N° 5, and Historias de Suiza, highlighting the breadth of her visual research and her ability to transform cultural references into poetic and provocative narratives.
The document offers a panoramic view of her recent practice: a journey through images, processes, and gestures that reveal how Torres reinterprets everyday symbols and contemporary mythologies from a migrant, playful, and deeply personal perspective. This portfolio serves as an entry point into her creative universe, where the pop, the ritual, and the intimate coexist in constant tension and dialogue.
Year of Publication: 2025
Publisher / Production: Independent project
Place of Publication: Zurich, Switzerland
Number of Pages: 44
Format: Printed book (art portfolio)
Dimensions: 21 × 29.7 cm (210 × 297 mm)
Language: English
Editorial Design: Honys Torres
Honys Torres
El imperio contraataca 2016
El Imperio Contraataca was Honys Torres’s first solo exhibition, a project conceived over two years that marked a turning point in her artistic trajectory. After an active period participating in national art salons and competitions, the artist identified within her own production a coherent visual discourse that had emerged organically over time. This realization led her to develop new works that strengthened and completed the conceptual and visual narrative of the exhibition.
The show was first presented in 2012 at the Museo de Anzoátegui in Barcelona, under the curatorship of Jérémy Fabre and Pilar Gispert. From there, it began an institutional tour that continued at the Museo Mateo Manaure in Maturín, where Torres incorporated additional works in response to the characteristics of the space. During this presentation, the museum’s board acquired one of the pieces for its permanent collection.
In 2014, the exhibition reached the Museo Alejandro Otero (MAO) in Caracas, invited by the Fundación Museos Nacionales. On this occasion, the main work of the show was incorporated into the nation’s artistic heritage, a recognition that solidified the project’s relevance within the contemporary Venezuelan art scene.
Finally, in 2015, the Museo de Barquisimeto presented the exhibition as part of its reopening, concluding the touring cycle of Torres’s first solo show. The project offered the artist a comprehensive experience of what it means to conceive, produce, and carry an exhibition through to its public presentation.
Title: Honys Torres. El Imperio Contraataca 2016
Type: Exhibition catalog
Author: Honys Torres
Year of Publication: 2020
Publisher / Production: Independent project
Place of Publication: Zurich, Switzerland
Number of Pages: 43
Format: Printed book Dimensions: 29.7 × 21 cm (297 × 210 mm) Language: Spanish
Editorial Design: Honys Torres
Year of Publication: 2019
Publisher / Production: Independent project
Place of Publication: Zurich, Switzerland
Number of Pages: 71
Format: Printed book (art portfolio)
Dimensions: 29,7 x 21 cm ( 297 x 210 mm)
Language: English
Editorial Design: Accion Gráfica C.A.
Printing Method: Digital printing
Honys Torres Portfolio 2019
Honys Torres Portfolio 2019 presents a comprehensive overview of Torres’s artistic production during a formative period marked by experimentation, migration, and the consolidation of her visual language. The publication brings together works that traverse pop iconography, political symbolism, personal memory, and the aesthetics of everyday life, offering a clear entry point into the conceptual and material foundations of her practice.
The book includes a curatorial essay by Katherine Chacón, one of the most internationally recognized Venezuelan curators. Drawing on her experience across major institutions in Venezuela, the United States, the Caribbean, and Latin America, Chacón situates Torres’s work within broader regional genealogies—Latin American Pop, political iconography, mass culture, and the symbolic displacements of the diaspora. Her text provides a historical and comparative framework that highlights the cultural and political resonances embedded in Torres’s imagery.
The publication also features a reflective text by the artist, expanding on the motivations, processes, and personal narratives that shape her visual universe. Together, these perspectives construct a layered portrait of an artist whose work navigates identity, memory, and contemporary Latin American aesthetics with clarity and critical depth.