Magda Kirk

Magda Kirk graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts/Department of Painting in Gdańsk, Poland (2015). In her painting, she focuses on the theme of the body within a cultural and social context. She creates images of anonymous and incomplete bodies in a dreamlike, blurry atmosphere.

Inspired by models, bodybuilders, and fictional characters like superheroes, she plays with cultural patterns surrounding the image of the female and male body, exploring their impact on contemporary people's identity, self-perception, and self-expression. By combining humor and horror, beauty and ugliness, or tenderness and aggression, she presents the ambiguous emotions that accompany our intimate relationship with the body as both subject and object.

She uses motifs and symbols from tattoo culture, trash graffiti, cartoons, and a broadly defined pop culture as a means of expression, often merging them into an indeterminate noise that forms the flesh of the bodies.

The artist's painting process is a meditation that involves layering multiple coats of color and doodles with an airbrush, resulting in an impression of luminous and unreal realism.