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Laura Makabresku (born in 1987; lives in Krakow). Is a Polish visual artist and photographer. Her photographs are overflown with mystic symbols and the atmosphere of fairy tales. Close to the surrealistic aesthetics, she creates visual methaphores concerning eroticism and death.


Patterns of distraction

My photographies are like screenshots from beautiful but cruel fairy tales. Their narrations are not straight. Images that appear are more like feelings that come during a lecture of an old folk-based story – full of witchcrafts and retributions. The structure of my works is similar to the structure of a dream where natural tendencies of collecting and organizing impulses and motivations coincide with irrational clashes of objects and feelings. Isolation and wounds are closed into patterns, uneasy and artificial orders – visual spells created in order to divide beastillness from humanity and dreams from horror.


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„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."

[From curatorial text by Magdalena Kownacka The moon is for adults only]


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Photos of laura makabresku (4)

  • behind lock and key by alliexxx
  • "the scent of soil" by Heiner Luepke
  •  by colourcritique
  • ..."I’d rather want You to take me to a Forest"... by Heiner Luepke
 

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  •  by Redmer Hoekstra
  •  by i'm a witch
  • Gulden Draak. by Adara .
  • Andrew. by Adara .
  • Arquímedes. by Adara .
  •  by antufev
  • Toison, ou Les sabots, a drawing for Laura Makabresku by Cendrine Rovini
 

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    Dear Pao, says:

    "Tu galería de fotos es exquisitamente perfecta y el más puro reflejo de la esencia de lo que eres.

    Créeme si te digo que me siento muy identificada con tus fotografías: los venados, las cicatrices, la mirada triste, las pesadillas, la figura masculina que representa tu protección, entre otras cosas.

    Me considero gran fanática de tu trabajo.

    (I wrote this in Spanish because words in English can't describe how I feel when I see your work. I hope you understand everything. If not, please let me know)."

    3rd December, 2012

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    Kid_Curry says:

    "Your photos are so magical and mysterious, one could write a whole novel based on just one of them, they make you wonder the story behind it, they seem to hold so much. I will always love and be inspired by your photography"

    15th January, 2013

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    laura zalenga says:

    "Dear Laura i just felt like saying this.

    In a very long time nobody touched me with their photos like you do. every single one seems like a dream. a dream dreamt in former times. and your photos make me feel as if i am part of them - not only a disturbing observer. i could look at them for ever just enjoying the wonder-ful mood and the breathtaking beauty, the calming hush and the pure honesty, the innovative craziness and the wild creativity."

    3rd May, 2012

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    whimsical jane says:

    "Laura Makabresku. Her pictures were ones of the first I discovered on flickr and it amazed me how lovely they are. The colours, details and fragilness of each one, gives me goose bumps! It's like they transmit sentiments and moods. Really great work Laura! :)"

    26th March, 2012

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    sinister kid says:

    "She tore my heart out, took it down to the bottom of a deep, calm sea and tied it with a ribbon made of everything a mind wants to forget. This is a shelter for my dreams. Thank you Laura!"

    19th December, 2011

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    Ella Ruth says:

    "Laura's photographs are enchanting. Each and every one tells a story of its own and transports us into a magical and beautiful new world. I could stare at each image for hours and never tire of the imagination and wonder behind each image. Without a doubt, Laura is one amazing artist."

    28th November, 2011

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    .orphin says:

    "your photographs leave me haunted, dreaming, hoping and sensing, inhaling atmosphere. so much rawness, so much beauty - you capture moments which are both magical and tenderly real, painful and enchanting. thank you for sharing your fairy tale world with us.
    i admire your talent/view on everything and feel connected to you, so much, dear laura."

    18th November, 2011

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    _acido says:

    "Poetry & Magic."

    24th September, 2011

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    MarιLəBοᴎe(s) says:

    "she is breathing poetry."

    18th August, 2011

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    Baie. says:

    "too much beauty in one person."

    29th July, 2011

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    iancrane. says:

    "Every single photo of yours has an intense sense of quietness, stillnes and realism and it is beautiful to witness from afar. You make beauty and you make art. And you just make me want to sit and stare for awhile."

    22nd March, 2011

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    Heiner Luepke says:

    "Lauras works speak to me like no other.
    the Contrast of fragile beauty and dreamlike, surreal mystery within this visual Poesy, she transports at its best."

    17th March, 2011

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    Monica Allaby says:

    "I hardly have the words to describe your photos. There's something so magical about each and every one of your pictures, a cross between dark and frightening, and soft and precious. Your photos are so perfectly unusual and gives a final product that whenever I see, I feel something. And I think that's what photography should be, a feeling, and you do that perfectly."

    24th January, 2011

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    a bird flies by says:

    "your photography is like a secret we have to take care of it.
    so precious.
    it feels like you have taken these photos in a time when we haven't been here at all.
    fragile. vulnerable. magical. sensuous. delicate. darkness. tender. innocent. sensitive. unknown. dangerous. secure.
    so close and yet so far.
    and something else i really have to say: you have probably the most beautiful hair i've ever seen."

    18th December, 2010

Name:
Laura Makabresku
Joined:
March 2010
Currently:
Cracow, Poland
I am:
Female
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