POLINA OSIPOVA
(b. 1998). Based in UK.
Artist’s statement:
Is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores Indigenous Chuvash legends and myths at the junction of craft and digital technologies. She refers to, reflects on and learns from the expertise of her female ancestors, using textiles and archival family photos to explore the threads between past and future - temporal and timeless, creating portals from the digital to analogue.
The recurring symbols of photographs in her work creates the illusion of an untold story hidden in her family archives. She mostly creates wearable sculptures, textile sculptures, engages with performance and photography – a set of works she considers intrinsically bound together and functioning as an organic whole. The wearable sculptures and objects she creates function as both regular sculptures as well as garments that are performed in, and which subsequently become a part of a digital mythology, captured in photos and videos.
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Is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores Indigenous Chuvash legends and myths at the junction of craft and digital technologies. She refers to, reflects on and learns from the expertise of her female ancestors, using textiles and archival family photos to explore the threads between past and future - temporal and timeless, creating portals from the digital to analogue.
The recurring symbols of photographs in her work creates the illusion of an untold story hidden in her family archives. She mostly creates wearable sculptures, textile sculptures, engages with performance and photography – a set of works she considers intrinsically bound together and functioning as an organic whole. The wearable sculptures and objects she creates function as both regular sculptures as well as garments that are performed in, and which subsequently become a part of a digital mythology, captured in photos and videos.
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SELECTED WORKS
CV
Awards
2021 Creative Activism Awards, Cultures of Resistance Foundation, Brazil
Solo Exhibitions
2021 "Digital mythology" Cothinkers Annual Prize, Hoxton Gallery, London, UK
Screenings
2024 "Kinetic Machines", Sala Equis Cinema, Madrid, Spain
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
“Happens to the Heart”, JO-HS Gallery, NYC
2024
"The Dream", International photography festival PhEst, Monopoli, Italy
"Rememberance of Things Future", Perfomance, Sarah Kravitz Gallery, London, UK
2023
“ArtlLab Eyeland”, International photography festival PhEst, Taranto, Italy
“Beyond”, The Crypt Gallery, London, UK
“Өмә”, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien x NGBK, Berlin, Germany
2022
“MacArthur Park”, Cromwell Place, London, UK
“Fashion for Bank robbers”, Maximiliansforum, Munich, Germany
“Still Happening”, Kupfer Project, London, UK
“*******”, Tilde Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
“Yellow Fields, Blue Skies” , Pushkin House, London, UK
2021
“5x5=26”, presented by Institut and the Hermitage Foundation UK, UK
“Ay”, Street Art Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2020
Moscow international Biennale for Young Art, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia