The exhibition site — Graphic Art Department of the Faculty of Fine Arts at NCU, Toruń, Sienkiewicza 30/32, Ground floor.
Vernissage 1/12/2023, at 2 pm
Katarzyna Łata
Born in 1973, she graduated from the State Secondary School of Fine Arts in Katowice in 1993 (graduated with distinction in applied arts, specialising in jewellery).
In the years 1994–1999, she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków at the Faculty of Graphic Arts in Katowice, graduating with a degree in graphic design and photography in the studio of prof. Tomasz Jura and in the department of graphic techniques under prof. Stanisław Kluska.
A member of the Association of Polish Art Photographers and the Association of Polish Artists and Designers.
A member of the informal international photography group INTER NOS since 2014, and a member of the FotArtProjekt Association since 2023.
About the exhibition
“Studium przypadku” (Case Study)
[…] In her project, Katarzyna Łata takes on the role of a researcher who processes data by recalling records from her own life, visually captured in multiplied images. She seeks equivalents to express her own experiences. She balances between the causal, practically atavistic reflexes that guide her life choices, and a conscious formation of them. She carries out a diagnosis of herself, on a psychological and artistic level, setting herself the task of discovering inner landscapes and transposing them into photographic images embedded in structures derived from the reality around her. […]
Danuta Kowalik-Dura
Tytus Grodzicki
Born in Poznań in 1972, he graduated from the Poznań University of Economics
(1995) and runs his own business.
He specialises in documentary, street and travel photography. Lives and works in Poznań, a member of the Association of Polish Art Photographers (ZPAF) Greater Poland Department and Fotspot Association.
About the exhibition
Algeria remains undiscovered, which makes it precious and mythical at the same time, similar to a philosopher’s stone. It is an elusive muse for both its children and foreigners. No one can resist her allure. In order to reach her, one must show humility. Those who look down on her will lose her from sight. They will only see their own arrogance.
Yasmina Khadra, an excerpt from an essay for the book “Deglet Nour”
Tytus Grodzicki first travelled to Algeria as a teenage boy. He spent over a year there. Memories and stories from that time followed him into adulthood. Photographs came a little later. Tytus Grodzicki returned to Algeria 30 years later to find familiar places and dear people, but also to look at Algeria with the eye of a documentary filmmaker.
“Deglet Nour” means the most perfect dates, and literally a “finger of light”. It is the light that guides the photographer and leads through the photographs. It has produced a story from a country that most of us know nothing about. We find everyday life without unnecessary emotions and events that would catch the viewer’s attention. The author is near, framing slightly from below, remaining invisible to those being photographed. He notices nameless characters: boys playing football, men hugging, arguments at the market or a couple spending time together, as well as women whose image escapes stereotypes.
Tytus Grodzicki does not look down on Algeria. He observes her closely, recalling familiar landscapes and scenes. He patiently and distantly follows the modern world, giving a glimpse of an undiscovered Algeria.
Monika Szewczyk-Wittek, Filip Ćwik
