Polina Osipova

Polina Osipova is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores Indigenous Chuvash legends and myths at the intersection of craft and digital technologies. Drawing on the knowledge of her female ancestors, she uses textiles and archival family photographs to trace connections between past and future – both temporal and timeless – creating portals between the digital and the analogue.

The recurring use of photographs in her work creates the illusion of an untold story hidden within her family archives. She primarily creates wearable sculptures and textile sculptures, and works with performance and photography – a body of work she considers intrinsically interconnected and functioning as an organic whole. The wearable sculptures and objects she produces operate both as autonomous sculptures and as garments for performance, subsequently becoming part of a digital mythology captured through photographs and videos.