“Өмә”, Polina Osipova, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien x NGBK Berlin, Germany 175 х 160 cm, Wool, archive photo copies, metal studs, acrylic, wire, 2023
Polina is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores Indigenous Chuvash legends and myths at the junction of craft and archeology of collective memory.
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 age to analogue.
The recurring symbols of photographs in her work creates the illusion of an untold story hidden in her family archives. Working across textile, sculpture, wearable sculptures and 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 personal mythology.
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