Michalina Malolepsza lives and works in Schiedam, The Netherlands. In 2011 she graduated at the Willem de Kooning Art Academy in Rotterdam. During her studies she decided to focus on printmaking especially on linocut technique. At this moment Michalina is busy with taking part of exhibitions and art projects, mainly in Rotterdam and surroundings. She works together with a group of other graphic designers at Grafisch Atelier Minnigh in Rotterdam.

Statement

I like to look at my work from the side. To give it the opportunity to mature. As time passes, I see that my work, as well as my statements about it, may seem inconsistent. This is because I often do something on the spur of the moment. Sometimes, after some time, my works gain a completely different meaning. Stylistically and conceptually, they change as dynamically as life. I suspect that over time, the dynamics of these changes will weaken.

Visual art is a bit like a chameleon. It communicates with the viewer by drawing their attention to itself depending on the context, mood, or moment of life they are in. It is the viewer who knows why something is taking their attention or not. The creator is responsible for their work, but not for its reception. The paradox is that the creator also becomes the recipient, and by not attaching importance to the concepts used in the past, they can see a completely new message in the works made in the past.

Of course, generally speaking, there are issues that I am interested in and I am constantly trying to process them into images.
First of all, I am interested in various sociological issues and portraiture. I understand portraiture not only as reproducing a likeness, but also as a much broader area, such as a psychological portrait. You can portray a person, but you can also portray humanity. Together with sociological issues, this gives unlimited possibilities for developing the imagination. I like to develop the idea of ​​a life path as a goal in itself and depict fragments of it.

Finally, I want to emphasize that all creativity is an element of communication with another person. However, a picture contains not verbal information, but a visual message. As recipients, we forget about this and often talk everything over, assigning labels and adding theories, reviewing too eagerly. The empiricism from which anything was created disappears. This is a kind of tragedy, because we close ourselves off to the subtlety of sensual stimuli, which need a moment of reflection and silence to fully extract their values.