Running to the Sun, 2025
photographs & prose
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We don’t see anyone we know in the park, and we are completely alone in the playground. On this day, even the usually busy street is empty. The external world exists, but without greater meaning. We are together—in a cocoon, a den, on a cloud, on an island—distanced from others, enclosed within our circle.
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An expectant mother finds herself out of sight during pandemic; with eyes tightly
shut during labor; with eyes seeking contact with an infant’s gaze and trying out a
toddler’s underfoot line of vision; and with eyes wide open straining to keep both in
sight during expeditions to the playgrounds and museums of Warsaw, Poland.
Apertures of nurturing.
In her autobiographical photobook Running to the Sun, artist Antonina Gugała
weaves images of moments in time paced to the clock of parenting—an alternately
hustling or stalling mechanism—with capsule texts detailing motherhood envisioned
and navigated through various forms of isolation and societal rupture. And all while
molding an evolving identity as artist-researcher and mother-of-two attempting to
balance generative practices of creation and caregiving.
Written by Stefan Lorenzutti
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2025
Edition of 500
Translated, from the Polish, by Magda Tchorek-Bentall
132 pages, 16.5×20.5 cm, color offset, binding sewn & glued
Printed on Munken Pure 150 with hot-stamped cover on Pure Rough 300
Edited by Stefan Lorenzutti
Designed by Nicole Salnikov
Production coordinated by Joanna Osiewicz-Lorenzutti
ISBN 978-83-68165-16-6
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