The Wrath of Reporters

05/04/2026

https://peoplesartist.org/2026/cynthia-karalla

I Have No Choice—it Is Life. The Universe Gives Us Gifts Disguised As Negatives, Teaching Us To Transform Situations Into Positive Action.

03/17/2026

Frida and Diego at MOMA The Museum of. Modern Art

03/10/2026

Cynthia Karalla’s images displayed at the Fortress, https://fortressverve.com/

03/09/2026

Us working...

03/09/2026

The "Jellyfish" installation by artist Poramit Thantapalit is exhibited at Arcadia Earth in New York City in 2019, designed to highlight the relationship between human waste and marine life.
​Poramit, a Thai-born artist based in the U.S., is known for "upcycling" discarded materials into organic, flowing forms. For this specific installation, he utilized thousands of reclaimed plastic bags to mimic the ethereal, translucent bodies of jellyfish.

10/08/2025

This Saturday, October 11th, a closing party at the gallery between 1 and 5, Makowski Gallery, 555 West 25th St, 3rd floor (elevator) NYC.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1P2kMm0XQh8BtKMKJ6BVsys_BxTKgBUeD/view

09/29/2025

In English...
In the heart of New York, the Makowski Gallery hosts Transformation: Alchemy in the Everyday. (September 25th- October 15th, 2025), a solo exhibition by Cynthia Karalla: A visual journey through pain, rebirth, and everyday poetry. Many of the works originate in Matera and Basilicata, bringing with them the ancient light and shadows of the South, where stone and landscape become universal symbols of fragility and strength. Karalla, raised in a Catholic context, builds her practice on a form of radical and silent alchemy: not the transmutation of negativity, but of the self. Through the lens, pain becomes beauty, what is fragmented is recomposed, what is rejected becomes sacred. It is in this spirit that series such as Baby Grand Piano, Poppies, Mona Lisa, and Cracked Ribs compose a choral tale of the human being and his infinite metamorphoses. In Baby Grand Piano (2003), created in Matera, several women bring their partners to the artist to portray them naked: Karalla expects scandal, but instead finds openness and gratitude. The male body, usually a symbol of power, becomes shared tenderness and vulnerability, the courage to show oneself without defenses. Grief becomes a ritual in Poppies: lying in the mud among insects after the loss of a dear friend, Karalla photographs wild poppies swaying in the light. These images are imbued with grace and melancholy, a visual acceptance of impermanence. "It is better to have loved and lost than never to have known love," each petal seems to whisper. With The Mona Lisa Series, over 3,500 photographs document the evolution of an individual over time, a meditation on identity as a fluid process. Inspired by hermeticism, the series becomes a metaphor for internal alchemy: Through time and introspection, the human being rises from matter to transcendence. Born during a convalescence, Cracked Ribs explores the transformation of perception: by leaving the lens open for long periods, time becomes co-author, inviting us to pause and notice what often escapes. The images shot among the tuff alleys and rocky landscapes of Basilicata amplify the dialogue between the intimate and the universal. The light that sculpts Matera, the silence of the badlands, and the austere beauty of the South become part of the alchemical narrative: Places where history, embedded in stone, intertwines with the fragility of the present, offering visions of transformation, resilience, and everyday poetry. With her works, Karalla casts a visual spell that reminds us of a radical truth: nothing is intrinsically negative. Every experience—no matter how painful or fragmented—contains the seeds of metamorphosis. It's up to us to cultivate them, with our gaze, time, and love.

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