"Why did I undergo breast-reduction surgery and photograph the process? It was a difficult time in my life. That work was an escape from what hurts, from the fact that I’m bleeding, that I can’t stand up straight—the sense that I have filters, drains, and foreign bodies in me. For me those photos were a form of therapy.
The first thing I thought of was beauty. Intuitively I felt that it would be useful. I called it beauty then, because that’s what I felt. Brutal beauty. But why I did it, I don’t know."
 
Ola Walków (born 1989, Katowice)
A student at the Lycée Guez de Balzac in Angoulême, France, and graduate of the Academy of Photography in Krakow, where her supervisor was Szymon Szcześniak.
Her motto is: “You have to do what you are good at, and what you love, and some time you’ll be noticed and appreciated—there’s no hurry after all …” Lives in Krakow.

Opening 19 May 2012, 5pm; to 17 June 2012.
Fundacja WyspART, ul. Mikołajska 4, I piętro

Exhibitions is part of the ShowOFF section of 10th Photomonth in Krakow.