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by Malina Wieczorek · Pęcice Małe, PL

The "Madonnas" series, realized since 2020, refers to the classic iconography and identity related to the culture of the regions. The artist replaces the halo with a pattern made of folk rollers, sometimes this halo is somewhere on the side, redefining the way in which the "sanctity" of women is shown and asking the question, what is it today? Often one can get the impression that it irritates the body, cuts into it, hurting. At other times, it is like a flower meadow around the heroines of the painting. It is this ambiguity and the possibility of self-interpretation, depending on the moment of life, one's own history, the mood of the recipient, that is the most interesting for the artist.