Dziennik kuracjusza
Wojciech Bociański
Release date - 25.07.2024
A forty-year-old man who suffered a heart attack receives funding from the Social Insurance Institution (ZUS) for a stay at a sanatorium. Shocked and bewildered by what he experiences, he starts keeping a journal from the very first day. The entries compiled in the Patient’s Journal open the golden gates of the Polish sanatorium to the reader. Together with Wojciech Bociański, you will explore the marble-floored undergrounds, pedal hundreds of kilometers in place, immerse your naked body in carbonated manure, and participate in sanatorium karaoke. You will be accompanied by a cast of characters: the Clean Freak, Pucia, Sum-Oblech, Corega, the Thin Man in Gold Frames, the Lioness, the Major, and the Screamer.
Dziennik kuracjusza offers on-the-spot accounts of those human weaknesses that cannot be cured at the health resort.
Papierosy
Maciej Piotr Prus
Release date - 30.11.2023
The more anti-smoking captions and pictures fill up the space of a cigarette packet, the more often I quit smoking. It’s not about the message of heart disease, impotence, and painful death, but about the aesthetics: I can’t stand the lack of respect for graphic design. After all, such a circle on Lucky Strikes is a masterpiece. Or the camel of Camels, the dancer on a pack of Gitanes, the whole Marlboro lettering.
Papierosy is a story that feeds on fire. Episodes, snapshots, and traces of memory carefully pieced together form a personal story, filtered through mass imagination, emigration, and historical breakthroughs. This book, written for over a dozen years – only in periods when the Author was quitting smoking – tells a story straight back from the brink. It brings testimonies of many personal defeats, but one belief too – in freedom, which is like breathing.
Buddaland
Juliusz Strachota
Release date - 27.12.2022
With everyone gaining insight into their past incarnations, the identity that enslaves humanity will disappear. We will bring a whole new order. Black will be white. A man will be a woman. The child will be an old man.
Jacek – a former software tester, jeans retailer and art dealer – discovers that he can contact his previous incarnation thanks to Tibetan meditation. He decides to monetise this skill. However, he soon finds out that he is not the only one who wants to turn reincarnation into a business. After all, the stages of spiritual training can be rewritten into algorithms, resulting in a new technology that enables contact with previous selves. Travelling between Warsaw, Walbrzych, Dharamsala, Otwock and New York, Jacek is seeking traces of the woman he used to be in his past life. However, he realises that he is losing access to his current life. However, he realises that meanwhile, he is losing access to his current life.
Parawany
korbusje
Release date - 24.11.2022
Parawany is a journalistic portrait of one of the most vivid holiday phenomenons to be found on the Polish coast. Is this canvas and stick construction-making a colourful essential or just an absurd habit? For korbusje, the windbreakers are a mass one-day residential development, the architecture of a large sandpit that creates odd urbanism fluttering in the wind. Let’s step into their midst and see what emotions they can evoke as they fill the album space