New Passport – Tomasz Jakub Motyka / Michał Chojecki

A zine by Tomasz Jakub Motyka and Michał Chojecki in the form of a folder containing a set of screen prints and riso prints.

What is New Passport about?

The New Passport zine and exhibition combine two extreme feelings for us: the longing to escape from everything (somewhere far away) and the resistance to filling out any form at the office.

And so, standing with a number in line at the window to submit an application—say, for a new passport—we look at the wall, where we see a wallpaper with a palm tree and a turtle. That's me, that's you, that's us.

That's pretty much how we'd describe our zine: entering the mind of a turtle climbing a palm tree. Do I go or not? To build or to tear down?

New Passport revisits the experience of a migrant confronting the state's system of control and propaganda. It is an entry into the world of "Kafkaesque reality."

In our concept, New Passport is a scenography created from risography and serigraphy prints that in an unconventional way process forms, documents, forms, regulations, laws, codes or ordinances, as well as state symbols that define a "map of coercion" for the actions and decisions of a migrant person.

The works presented at the exhibition are a manifesto of the artists against exclusion, discrimination and psychological violence that migrants experience in their search for a new home; at the same time (shown together), they contribute to the debate on the issues of individual security and freedom.

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What is New Passport?

The zine was conceived as a collection of loose sheets of various sizes, enclosed in a folder frame tied with a ribbon.

All graphics were printed using screen printing and RISO on lightweight newsprint paper.

The 25x35 cm folder contains 15 works in sizes ranging from 10x6 cm to 120x80 cm.

When and how was New Passport created?

The zine is the result of collaboration between two artists, playwright and photographer Tomasz Jakub Motyka, and graphic designer Michał Chojecki.

The set of works included in the New Passport portfolio was created en route, in place, and during a 72-hour journey to Hel, the tip of Poland. The artists utilized their favorite tools to engage in a personal dialogue about their relationship to the place and the journey. Using a typewriter, pen plotter, and Drukuś thermal printer, they posed questions and sought visual expressions for answers that weren't necessarily obvious.

The material was premiered at an exhibition at Oficyna Peryferie as part of the Fringe Warszawa 2025 festival, 24-28.09.2025.

Authors: Tomasz Jakub Motyka, Michał Chojecki

Format: Folder 24x35 cm, graphics from 10x6 cm to 120x80 cm

Technique: Screen printing and riso

Edition: 100 numbered copies

Paper: lightweight newsprint by weight