Mira Makai Dalma, ceramic artist, belongs to the young artist generation that is started to reshape the form of the Hungarian art scene throughout the last couple of years. Makai’s organic statues resemble human organs or marine creatures and her thick, tangling organism-like ceramics put Makai’s works to a prominent and distinctive place among contemporary artists. As well, her works are part of private collections in Europe and have been exhibited nationally and internationally in Austria, Romania and Germany.

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Makai experimented and tested out her own incineration technique and pigment use which combined end up creating vivid, dynamic, still smart, and elegant compositions. She also draws upon a variety of techniques, which she acquired from her studies in the printmaking department at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts.

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Some words from the artist on inspiration and methodology:

"I collect inspiration for my latest sculptures from many places. I condense my favourite patterns I found during my virtual or real reflections into my work. Thus, it can happen that a character, basically from Chinese mythology, mixes with the language of the cartoon form and appears in rhyming colours with the world of current running shoe fashion. It gives me a lot of formal freedom that the use of these ingredients is often not pre-planned, often basically not even conscious, the fragments essentially mix spontaneously by me and meet each other in a given job. So, decoding the connections after the firing process is also a kind of game for me and carries the already mentioned surprise experience."

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