
RÓŻE
- Publisher
- Outer Space Press
- Year
- 2018
- ISBN
- 978-3-942547-64-2
- Specifications
- Clothbound embossed hardcover with unique suminagashi marbling, smyth sewn
20 x 28 cm
112 pages
4-colour Risograph
Munken Print White 115 gsm paper
Edition of 150 numbered and signed copies
The source material for this photobook is a compendium of roses published in Poland in 1967, "A guidebook for those who fancy roses", with 150 colour photographs of different varieties. Wysocka rescanned the images and transformed them into something almost entirely different. The trigger was the failed offset printing of the originals, with its shifts of colour and distortions, and she pushes the printing mistakes further by reproducing the images in four-colour CMYK separation on a Risograph. Mis-registrations and roller marks turn petals into abstract colour studies and printer-pointillist textures, where the recognisable drifts away and the obviousness of the subject is systematically destroyed.