Tytus Grodzicki - Deglet Nour blow up press

Tytus Grodzicki - Deglet Nour blow up pressBlow Up Press 2018 What do we know about Algeria? What do we associate it with? For many of us, Algeria is a mystery, a land known from Albert Camus books. We also associate it with dramatic news from media. But for some, Algeria is also a memory of youth, first friendships and love, a lost place in a sense but thanks to it also dreamed up. This is the vision of Algeria that Tytus Grodzicki provides in his first book. In DEGLET NOUR, there is no point

radical framing and shallow focus

Hence the title “high hopes”

In October 1979

connecting discarded buildings with bewildered passers-by

housed in a silkscreened sleeve

their uncompromisingness and for their very special language and the path they appreciates

the book of otherwise unpeopled

‘they are about the process of their own making

on the other

Finally I decided to destroy those useless pieces

since his beginnings

all proclaiming the authoritarian power of the state over people