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My work represents magical realism, where magic and fantasy are interwoven with reality.  
One can feel  some nostalgia here. The girl looks a little sad and melancholic. Painting is made in traditional way using brushes, acrylic 
and oil paints on canvas.
This piece is stretched on a wooden frame. It will be unstretched and shipped rolled in a tube.
My work represents magical realism, where magic and fantasy are interwoven with reality.  
One can feel  some nostalgia here. The girl looks a little sad and melancholic. Painting is made in traditional way using brushes, acrylic 
and oil paints on canvas.
This piece is stretched on a wooden frame. It will be unstretched and shipped rolled in a tube.
My work represents magical realism, where magic and fantasy are interwoven with reality.  
One can feel  some nostalgia here. The girl looks a little sad and melancholic. Painting is made in traditional way using brushes, acrylic 
and oil paints on canvas.
This piece is stretched on a wooden frame. It will be unstretched and shipped rolled in a tube.

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Monika Malgorzata Gabrys

Mexico

Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

Size: 31.5 W x 23.6 H x 1 D in

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WE USED TO PROTECT EACH OTHER In this piece, the boundaries between reality and magic dissolve, where the whispers of fantasy merge with the everyday. A veil of nostalgia lingers in the air— the girl’s eyes reflect a quiet sadness, a melancholic echo of a time when we shielded each other from the world. Painted with the old traditions in mind, each brushstroke of acrylic and oil on canvas carries a memory, a fleeting emotion, woven into the fabric of the work. On the left side of the painting, a girl tenderly embraces a black cat, its fur touched with a bit of white. Her gaze, filled with affection, rests softly on the creature, a silent exchange of love. On the right, the same girl faces forward, and from behind, a hand gently wraps around her left side, just a fragment visible. Yet in that partial gesture, the warmth of the embrace is unmistakable—a quiet bond of protection and care. Stretched over a wooden frame, it will be unwrapped from its current form, rolled into a vessel, and sent forth—carrying the magic of its essence, like a secret waiting to be unveiled.

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Acrylic on Canvas

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31.5 W x 23.6 H x 1 D in

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Monika Gabrys I was born in Cracow, Poland, however, since 2004 I live and represent Merida, Yucatan, Mexico. I am binational since 2009. I have a career of more than 20 years in painting and in the medium of visual arts. I have dedicated myself to painting, drawing, collage, I have experimented with engraving, contemporary textile art, installations, conceptual art and action art. As a painter I have been active since 1995, after having won first place in a local art festival FEKUSZ and I am still active, since in addition to the Master's artistic project I have just finished the other, selected and supported by the Merida Municipal Fund for the Visual Arts. My main focus is painting, although the label of the painter conflicts me, since my personal search has led me to experiment in different fields and with different media, that is, my position is flexible and open towards what is called interdisciplinary and trans art. I also have a Bachelor of Nursing degree (Institute of Human Sciences INCIH) and experience gained at the Medical Center of the Americas (CMA) and the Agustín O'Horán General Hospital, the fact that at first glance it could be seen as very abstracted from art . However, I consider it an extension of the same search that motivates me to make art, because in recent times, innumerable aspects have been opened that can be used in artistic paths. Painting seems to be a relic of the past, and yet it is still alive, because the act of painting accompanies the human being practically from the beginning. That is why my idea of two-dimensional painting and art oscillates around the questions —which are in accordance with my line of research—: How could painting, located in time and space, be reconciled with the accelerated and paradoxical transformations of contemporary world? How to figure and represent —through painting— our situation in space and time inevitably linking to the computerized and globally interconnected world-space? Because, definitely, we are facing a complex world, with an excess of information, images, screens, references and, now, a post-pandemic world. By choosing this medium (painting) I place myself again in "between” (which is part of my research). I am currently counter-producing with the collective "Des-obra".

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