Laura Makabresku (b. 1987, Poland) is an internationally recognized photographic artist whose work blurs the line between reality and reverie. Through haunting, symbolic images, she crafts visual narratives that explore themes of suffering, grace, devotion, and transformation, often drawing from myth, mysticism, and inner ritual.

This exhibition, Laura Makabresku: Mystical Realism, is her first solo show in the United States and features more than 30 photographic works, all available for purchase. The collection offers an immersive encounter with her symbolic world, where recurring motifs including birds, veils, candlelight, windows, wounds appear like fragments of a sacred text. Makabresku’s images invite the viewer to slow down and listen with the eyes, to perceive layers of meaning beneath the surface of light and shadow.

Makabresku’s quiet, arresting compositions have earned her a global following, including more than 280,000 followers on Instagram, where her work circulates widely among those drawn to its intimate and transcendent beauty. Based in Kraków, Poland, her photography has appeared in international publications including Juxtapoz, Kinfolk, and L’Officiel, and has been exhibited across Europe and Japan. Her recent interview by Yahia Lababidi in World Literature Today reveals much about her ‘otherworldly art' which ‘is a sanctuary we visit so that we can return to this world, spiritually refreshed.’

She lives simply in Kraków, Poland, where she continues to create quietly and intuitively, drawing inspiration from the land, her faith, and the interior life.