Janek KozaBad Dreams

Bad Dreams

Janek Koza

’Bad Dreams’ is a collection of bitter stories about the desire to get away from tiresome reality.

Nine characters portrayed by Janek Koza, shivering like the author’s line, struggle with frustrating work, boredom, failed relationships, or the nightmare of insomnia. Trying to change their fate, they immerse themselves in dreams and reach their small moments of fulfillment, which illuminate the darkness of the gloomy polish daily life. However, making them come true leaves the characters in stagnation and loneliness. With his naturalistic approach, Koza outlines an image of problems and desires, grimaces, and raptures of the cross-section of our society, from twenty-something to fiftyyear-olds. One cannot know if their bad dream begins when they put their head on a pillow or when they open their eyes after night delusions.

Janek Koza looks on those that we turn our eyes from, so we’ll stop deceiving ourselves that we’re any different from them.

Series Release Extent Binding Illustrations ISBN Price Life June 2021 80 pp; 170 x 240 mm HC full-colour 978-1-912278-17-6 15 GBP / 22 USD / 18 EUR

Janek Koza paints, directs animations and films, and creates comics. He was born on 1st April, 1970 in Wrocław. Koza’s works have been presented at a wide range of exhibitions, at the Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw, Łódź Art Museum, and at the National Museum in Poznań. The artist has authored more than one hundred animated films, widely showcased in Poland and abroad, for instance at: WRO Art Center in Wrocław, Łódź Art Museum, National Museum in Poznań, Animamundi in Brazil, and Image Forum in Tokyo. BIO NA STRONĘ: Janek Koza, born 1970. In june 1987 he dreamed that he was a taxi driver. About 1994 he passed the road tractor driving exams. Thanks to his hard work he developed his own shipping company operating throughout Europe. On his way to Germany, while changing the wheel on the roadside, he met his future wife Jadwiga (got married in a year 1998). Two kids ( Anna, born 1999 and Krystyna, born 2000). Frequent trips and absences from home led to a series of family problems in 2001 and eventually divorce in 2002. He died alone in his home in the suburbs of Warsaw in 2019 of a stroke. Unfortunately, this dream did not come true. After waking up, he has a neck pain for several days.