Spotlight: Polina Osipova
Hoxton Gallery, London | 12pm—7pm
Enter the world of Polina Osipova, Chuvash artistic voice fusing traditional folklore, intricate crafts and wide-ranging possibilities of digital narratives. Polina Osipova is the winner of Сothinkers Annual Prize 2021 dedicated to championing emerging female talent. The showcase is the first of the annual series initiated by cothinkers, a creative company exploring the new ways of storytelling in contemporary culture.
Each year, an emerging artist will be given an opportunity to have a showcase supported by the company.
Each year, an emerging artist will be given an opportunity to have a showcase supported by the company.
Enter the world of Polina Osipova, Chuvash artistic voice fusing traditional folklore, intricate crafts and wide-ranging possibilities of digital narratives. Polina Osipova is the winner of Сothinkers Annual Prize 2021 dedicated to championing emerging talent. The showcase is the first of the annual series initiated by cothinkers, a creative company exploring the new ways of storytelling in contemporary culture.
Each year, an emerging artist will be given an opportunity to have a showcase supported by the company.
Each year, an emerging artist will be given an opportunity to have a showcase supported by the company.
The showcase is an immersive journey into digital mythology, and how it can expand our boundaries within storytelling. The showcase is built around recurring symbols in the artist's work: eyes, tears, hands, silver coins and the image of the wolf, a supernatural creature which is simultaneously animal and human.
All of these motifs create a story which allows the viewer to muse on the power of nature and our place within it, while reviving and reimagining forgotten histories and connecting with ancestral female power. The wolf and the image of a Chuvash warrior woman endlessly appear in Polina's work, often transforming into one another. In the same way, the past and present, digital and analogue constantly coexist, connected through the artist's creativity.
All of these motifs create a story which allows the viewer to muse on the power of nature and our place within it, while reviving and reimagining forgotten histories and connecting with ancestral female power. The wolf and the image of a Chuvash warrior woman endlessly appear in Polina's work, often transforming into one another. In the same way, the past and present, digital and analogue constantly coexist, connected through the artist's creativity.
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