Video: Creativity of the mentally ill? Just the epitome of nightmares in Mia Makila's paintings and collages
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Everyone probably knows about the painting "Maslenitsa", in which literally a few details indicate that it was painted by a mentally ill person. There are so many of these details in Mia Makila's paintings that, after looking at several of her eerie works, you stop believing that she is an absolutely adequate person.
Of course, we all remember well the horror drawings by Mike Sosnowski, but his paintings were scary and funny at the same time. Or ambiguous pictures of what is really going on in the soul of a person from the Japanese Ryohei Hase, but there is a certain romance in his works. And Mia Makila has almost none. Solid creepy images from nightmares and eerie visions of the future.
Mia Makila was born in 1979 in Norrkping, Sweden. Now he lives and works in Stockholm. I learned to draw myself. In addition to paintings, she also makes collages, does mixed art, usually on canvas, sometimes resorting to vintage, even antique techniques and materials. According to the author of such terrible pictures, the main thing in life for her is the truth. “Well, well, there is also love and art, and they are perhaps more important, but if we do not live truthfully, we cannot really love a person, and if we do not speak the truth about works of art, then about any art and speech it can't be,”the artist says.
It is the truth that she considers the main goal of her scary pictures … Even if this is a rather creepy truth. Mia Makila covers many topics: politics, love, people, life in general. Judging by Mia's paintings, there is no truth in the world that would hide something good. I wonder how Mia herself knows this is all true? One way or another, she finds in her paintings the embodiment of her demons and nightmares, his fears and sorrows, draws them to get rid of them. There is indeed a lot of nightmare in her paintings: eerie, incongruous images. Collected according to some inexplicable logic in one place.
She was inspired by many filmmakers known for their difficult and controversial films: Terry Gilliam, David Lynch, Ingmar Bergman, Tim Burton and, of course, Hitchcock. She considers many of her works to be very cinematic. Whether it is true or not, you can see on her website.
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