Born into a colonised ethnic minority in Russia, Polina Osipova used the skills ancestral women taught her to create art that challenges both her country’s and her culture’s limitations
was long unaware that most people from outside of her country had no knowledge of her culture’s existence.
It’s customary to go to the baths often,” Osipova recalls. “You go in as a child surrounded by 13 women relatives, from a baby to a 100-year-old great-grandmother. You wash and steam naked and then go swimming in the lake under the stars or jumping in the snow in winter. Sounds like a witches’ ritual, doesn’t it?”
. One who, at just age 24, is planning her second exhibition and has collaborated with Gucci, and is a muse of Florence Welch.Under the Soviet Union, Chuvash culture was repressed by the state and, in many ways, that treatment continues in contemporary Russia today. When she was at school, Osipova says it was “fashionable” to pretend you were Russian, even though almost none of the children actually were.
Osipova’s ancestors are central to her work, specifically the singing and the mythologising of the image of her grandmothers and great-grandmothers.One of her most striking pieces is a suit of armour made up of her old family photos, showing weddings, domestic life, birth and death.
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