Beka Magyarlaki develops an immersive sculptural practice in which materials become vessels of memory, flesh, and transformation. Their forms, often biomorphic, evoke fragments of organs, shells, envelopes, or embryonic structures. Through them, the artist explores how the body is constructed, fragmented, and recomposed, in a constant dialogue between interiority and environment. Her work draws on intimacy, bodily memory, and sexuality, questioning representations of gender and exploring identity beyond fixed categories. Between the micro and the macro, the organic and the architectural, her sculptures stand as witnesses to an expanded, mutating body, where boundaries begin to blur.
Beka Magyarlaki (b. 1992) is a Hungarian artist currently based in Paris. Magyarlaki graduated with first class honours from BA (Hons) Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, London in 2017 and has since been exhibiting internationally in the UK, France, Morocco, Portugal, Turkey and Australia. Her latest body of work has been supported by Montresso Art Foundation in Marrakesh. Their work was nominated for The MullenLowe NOVA Awards (2017), and The International Takifuji Art Award (2017).