„Laura Makabresku condenses the fairy tale into a frame. One stage on which everything plays out. There is a heroine existing between the worlds. Beautiful and dark. Her sexuality fluctuates between girlish erotic fantasy and the extreme instincts of nature. In a childish way she is fascinated by death. Her land is inhabited by animals, monsters, people in animal masks, objects—all of them of equal status. The world’s orders tangle together. Death in this land is liberating, a kind of good dream into which we tumble, searching for eternity, and which exists within us as constellations painted on the heroine’s body. The motifs and scenes are repeated. Themes are repeated obsessively. It all exists outside of time, everywhere and nowhere, never and always, in the seventy-seventh land. And eternity is just as cruel as death."

Magdalena Kownacka

 

 

 

Laura Makabresku (born 1987, Brzesko)

A graduate in Polish Philology from the Pedagogical University in Krakow and currently a student of philosophy. Her work is published in many international magazines (Atomica, Apricot, Magpie, Carne, Impracabez, 10x15, Graisse Animale, Sova), and she has participated in exhibitions 30 Under 30, You Are my Favourite, at the Red Gallery Café and W Domu Gallery, respectively. She has been interviewed for a number of international websites (kwerfeldein.de, Ben Trovato, The D-Photo, portable.tv), as well as the Oxford art magazine Trinity Arts Stack.

 

 

 

LAURA MAKABRESKU

THE MOON IS FOR ADULTS ONLY

Curators: Magda Kownacka & Gaweł Kownacki

 

Grand opening: 19.05.2012; 4 p.m.

Kamienica Bogoria, ul. Senacka 6

17.05–17.06.2012

THU–SUN: 12 p.m.–6 p.m.