Maciejka Art
Maciejka Art. Born in Poland in 1983, she grew up in Italy, where she graduated from the Accademia delle Belle Arti di Venezia and earned a master's degree in Professional Photography from the IED Institute, Venice Since 2016, she has lived and worked in Oaxaca, Mexico. Her multidisciplinary work takes photography as its starting point, expanding to painting, drawing, and collage to reflect her own multiculturalism through themes of femininity, ancestral myths, diversity, migration, and magic.
In 2017, she filmed a documentary in Afghanistan for the NGO Emergency (IT). She has participated in several artist residencies, and her work has been exhibited in Italy, the United Kingdom, Poland, Colombia, China, and Mexico. Her work has been published in Elle Decor, Vogue, and Vanity Fair.
During the 2024 Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles festival (FR), Maciejka presented her project Hoja Santa (2017-2023), developed at Hydra + Fotografía in Mexico City and co-published by the photography-focused labels Actes Sud (FR) and Dewi Lewis (UK).
The project won the Luma Prize and was a finalist in several categories at this prestigious international festival of fine art photography. Hoja Santa explores the anthropological narrative of Afro-Mexican villages, the syncretism between Catholic and Afro-Mexican cultures, shamanism, and the artist's own journey of exploration. Curated by Ramón Pez, the exhibition, after showing in France, was presented in Jimei, China, and Toboe, Budapest, in a duo exhibition with Cristina Khalo at the Brescia Museum of Photography (Italy) and the Manuel Alvarez Bravo Foundation (Mexico).
The Ex-Votos series is her most recent work, in which she blends imagery from different eras, places, rituals, myths, and traditions, generating dreamlike universes that are both vibrant and balanced. Her vignettes and compositions merge the European tradition in which she was trained with Mexican idiosyncrasies—especially those of the state of Oaxaca—drawing on her personal experience within the vibrant community of women artists from diverse nationalities and indigenous backgrounds where she lives.
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Maciejka Art
Maciejka Art. Born in Poland in 1983, she grew up in Italy, where she graduated from the Accademia delle Belle Arti di Venezia and earned a master's degree in Professional Photography from the IED Institute, Venice Since 2016, she has lived and worked in Oaxaca, Mexico. Her multidisciplinary work takes photography as its starting point, expanding to painting, drawing, and collage to reflect her own multiculturalism through themes of femininity, ancestral myths, diversity, migration, and magic.
In 2017, she filmed a documentary in Afghanistan for the NGO Emergency (IT). She has participated in several artist residencies, and her work has been exhibited in Italy, the United Kingdom, Poland, Colombia, China, and Mexico. Her work has been published in Elle Decor, Vogue, and Vanity Fair.
During the 2024 Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles festival (FR), Maciejka presented her project Hoja Santa (2017-2023), developed at Hydra + Fotografía in Mexico City and co-published by the photography-focused labels Actes Sud (FR) and Dewi Lewis (UK).
The project won the Luma Prize and was a finalist in several categories at this prestigious international festival of fine art photography. Hoja Santa explores the anthropological narrative of Afro-Mexican villages, the syncretism between Catholic and Afro-Mexican cultures, shamanism, and the artist's own journey of exploration. Curated by Ramón Pez, the exhibition, after showing in France, was presented in Jimei, China, and Toboe, Budapest, in a duo exhibition with Cristina Khalo at the Brescia Museum of Photography (Italy) and the Manuel Alvarez Bravo Foundation (Mexico).
The Ex-Votos series is her most recent work, in which she blends imagery from different eras, places, rituals, myths, and traditions, generating dreamlike universes that are both vibrant and balanced. Her vignettes and compositions merge the European tradition in which she was trained with Mexican idiosyncrasies—especially those of the state of Oaxaca—drawing on her personal experience within the vibrant community of women artists from diverse nationalities and indigenous backgrounds where she lives.
