Magdalena Firląg

“Mushroom season”, video 2’09, edition Natalia Siarniewicz

The nature is very smart. Accepting your own body is the way, the process. We tend to be stricter when we're young. Coming to terms with ourselves, liking our own physicality inexplicably adds to our beauty. Living in harmony with the nature, with respect for the ritual, confirms our belief that true beauty lies in the lack of perfection. In polish colloquially we say mushrooms for elderly people.

Magdalena Firląg (Otwock, Poland, 1984) currently lives and works in Mexico City.

Firląg's artistic proposal is located within the field of formal aspects, including elements such as fragmentation, the relationship with the space and experimentation with different materials. Her nomadic nature and her nostalgia resulted in the cultivation of tenderness towards distant cultures, syncretism and quick assimilation skills, both in her daily life and in her artistic endeavor.

She graduated with honors from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, she studied at the University of the Basque Country in Bilbao, School of Visual Art in New York. She also studied oriental lacquer painting with Master X. Chieu in Saigon, Vietnam. In 2019 she obtained a master's degree from the UNAM Faculty of Arts and Design, where she is currently studying for a PhD. Firląg has participated in various artistic residencies, in 2010 and 2015 she was a fellow of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico. In 2020 she obtained a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture of Mexico and the Ministry of Culture of Poland. He has presented his work in individual and group exhibitions internationally in spaces such as Fort San Diego Historical Museum, National Numismatic Museum, Salon Acme, Luis Adelantado Gallery, Salomon Art Gallery NYC, Raúl Anguiano Art Museum in Guadalajara, European Museum of Modern Art in Barcelona, Arsenał Gallery in Białystok (Poland), the European Parliament in Brussels, and the Clavijero Cultural Center, among others.