- Title: Instytut
- Artist: Gabriel Orłowski
- Additional Contributor: Michał Chojecki
- Designer: Gabriel Orłowski
- Editor: Gabriel Orłowski
- Imprint: Oficyna Peryferie
- Printer: Oficyna Peryferie (RISO)
- Publication date and place: 15.11.2017 / Warsaw, Poland
- Edition: 170
- Format, binding: Hardcover, stitch bound
- Size: 14 x 19,9 cm
- Number of pages and images: 80 / 88
- Type of printing and paper: risograph, Munken Pure Rough 100g/m2
- Retail price: 12EUR / 49PLN
Book description:
Standing on a shelf, this book seemingly doesn't differ from other solid, hard-cover publications. But there is something in it, that you could never find in any other industrially produced publication. Materiality - or even corporeality - of the Riso printing technique overlays a story told in simple pictures – the narration is based on collages and their connotations. Institute – a macguffin operator in the field of research – leads an expedition, where something goes wrong. But what precisely? Various parallels of a long lost voyage diary come to head. The book is sensuous and organic. The paint smudges a but under fingers, what strengthens the specific atmosphere of the story. If I may suggest, put Institute near your favorite National Geographic's. That will be where it's best for it.