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and scenes from the life of the court in
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sculptor. She developed a unique method of using cardboard, glue and different materials in order to sculpt animal and human figures. Later she sculpted figures of people from wax. After that, she moved on to painting with paint on cardboard, and later on in paint on canvas. Her current works are
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The work of Małgorzata Mirga-Tas was an attempt to expand the Polish and
European iconosphere and art history to include representations of Roma culture. The artist created a world constantly subjected to "conversion", which became a kind of shelter offering hope and respite for the recipients.
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In addition to the exhibition, a catalog was created in Polish and
English. It included texts by the curators and essays by invited writers - Ali Smith and Damian Le Bas, scholar Ethel Brooks, as well as poems by Teresa Mirga and Jan Mirga.
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as part of the "Milk of Dreams" exhibition, where she was the first Romani artist to represent any country at this art event. The solo exhibition was entitled "Re-Enchanting the World".
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life to a permanent settlement in villages and cities. Her exhibition "Out of Egypt" (2021) at the
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