ARTIST STATEMENT

Polina Annikova is a London-based artist whose practice encompasses sculpture, painting, and installation, emphasising process, transformation, and materiality. By working with both natural and man-made materials, she explores the interaction of fragments and resolved forms, questioning the boundaries between object, event, and system. Her work reflects an interest in interconnected systems and their unpredictable effects, influenced by ideas in systems theory and new materialism. These frameworks inform her view of materials as active collaborators with intrinsic vitality, shaping outcomes in unexpected ways. Annikova is interested in the range of differences between materials, and she enquires into the physical nature and innate properties of these particular elements. Remnants, by-products, and experimental fragments are integral to her process, often inhabiting spaces of production and exhibition simultaneously. This duality creates a dynamic relationship between creation and display, where the work evolves through its shifting contexts. Questions of materiality, spatial interaction, and the coexistence of contrasting forms explore the tension between precision and fluidity. Through ongoing experimentation, Annikova’s practice remains open-ended, creating works that resist singular interpretations. Each piece is a continuation of an evolving enquiry, where systems of transformation, input and output reveal unanticipated, unseen links between all of the seemingly individual elements of her practice.