Laura Makabresku (b. 1987), The Beauty of the Soul, 2023

Poster for the exhibition "Light of Melancholy". Limited edition of 10 pcs signed and numbered by the artist.
Dimensions: 50 x 70 cm Handwritten signature - pd.: Laura Makabresku 8/10

Kamila Kansy, known as Laura Makabresku, is a visual artist. She made her debut in 2012 with an exhibition as part of the Month of Photography in Krakow. Since then, she has presented her works at home and abroad. She is the winner of the "Arteon" Award for 2018, as well as the OKSSa National Competition for Sacred Art in 2021.

For her, creativity is part of simple everyday life. It is a place where she goes out expecting to meet Personal Beauty. She photographs and writes, or rather, weaves stories, the threads of which, though scattered across the frames and titles of the works, weave a common narrative of touching and melancholy, gentle and simple abiding in the world. The viewer in an encounter with her works often identifies with the protagonists, who are shown as participants in the reality depicted in all its fullness, involved in it in all its dimensions on an equal footing. Recalling and reopening to this miraculous disposition of the human person is, paradoxically, an activity that does not require effort (activity, outlay), but rather to bare one's senses and the space around oneself, to allow silence to exist and the emergence of a tormenting longing for Paradise, to resuscitate thinking about the world in terms of fairy tales and myth. The artist calls this kind of work "mystical realism," where the metaphysical is intertwined with the material in a mysteriously obvious way, without a heavy impression of the extraordinary. Everything seems to be in its place, although it's hard to tell how this happens. The work seems to be mined from the artist's very personal experiences, although the popularity of her works indicates that these are experiences shared by many of her audience, which leads us to believe that perhaps they do indeed contain crumbs of truth about existence.