Małgorzata Wakuluk:Not What You Think
© Małgorzata Wakuluk
Artist Statement
I believe it’s worth to share about places we’ve been to, people we were fortunate to meet, and the emotions they evoked in us. Photography is a passion of mine which I embraced four years ago and continue to cultivate, and it is through photography that I was able to experience all of those things. In this extraordinary journey I am on, I find that people fascinate me the most. I strive to approach them in the most astute of ways while showing them respect and humility. I resolve to learn something unique from these encounters and then share my lessons with others.
This time, however, I decided to use pictures to tell stories about someone I’ve gotten to know the most, Me. About my place in this world, my desires, my freedom, and perhaps my fear. About relationships, similarities and dissimilarities. It’s a deep personal story that I decided to tell.
This intimate account is a voice which hopes to touch the values that are close and important to other women as well. And it’s a voice which resonates at the key moment for me, as I’m trying to find the courage within me and stop identifying myself with the physicality of my body, but rather focus on the penetrating consciousness of my mind. It is also an attempt to discover my own myth and my life’s individual meaning.
The set of photographs presented at this exhibition left me a bit startled, as I had not expected photography to be capable of becoming such a research tool..