Polina Filippova

I make images of people and places I love that you can barely see. Using screens, microcomputers, holographic fans, encaustic wax, and digital print, I turn private life into strange, charged things — video miniatures on black velvet pillows, videos that respond to your body, wax prints where figures dissolve into dark. 

I graduated from the Royal College of Art and live and work in London. My work is in private collections across the US, UK, Europe, and the Middle East.  Can't See, Can't Stop Looking, a new solo exhibition, opens at Raleigh Chapel in May 2026.

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Can’t See, Can’t Stop Looking

Upcoming solo show at Raleigh Chapel

20–25 May 2026

Raleigh Chapel
138 Church Walk
London N16 8QQ

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Selected Works



Small Things, 2023–2026
Video miniatures, 1.69-inch screens, microprocessors, velvet

21x32 cm


A series of soft pillow-like objects with tiny screens. It’s a catalog of mundane daily actions we all do but rarely see others engaged in them: from cleaning the fridge to laying in the bed. Small Things is a joyful act of turning the familiar into a dollhouse replica of reality. 



In The Corner, 2025 Inkjet print on archival Hahnemühle paper, wax varnish, mounted on Dibond and aliminium frame

70x112 cm



Almost There, 2021
Framed screens, microprocessors, interactive system, single-channel videos. 5 interactive objects

50×30×5 cm


‘Almost There’ is a series of 5 interactive self-portraits that capture the emotional landscape of solitary living in between digital and physical space.


Girlscapes Rain, 2024
Single-channel video, matte screen, microprocessor, white Carrara marble found in the bins of Pietrasanta

20x17x3cm





Onto The Other Side, 2025Inkjet print on archival Hahnemühle paper, wax varnish, mounted on Dibond and aliminium frame

70x112 cm




In Bed, 2025Inkjet print on archival Hahnemühle paper, wax varnish, mounted on Dibond and aliminium frame

50x74cm




June, 2022Digitally printed video stills, wax, paper, pencil. 30 miniature pieces
Dimensions variable; smallest work 2.5 × 5 cm, 20 × 25 cm framed
What we usually remember of life are special events, while most of our time we do nothing seemingly special. We are alone with ourselves or with the small circle of people, doing routine tasks in a familiar environment. This is the time that forms our fabric of life.

June is a diary of one woman’s summer month. It captures the everyday in tiny objects, using encaustic wax and digitally printed stills from documental footage.



Still Lives With A Single Girl, 2022
Video Installation

A digital museum of sentimental objects, where they are collected in the “objective” form of 3d maps. Like important memories, they infinitely play on repeat, fall apart, get overwritten and distorted, but never fully disappear. 


Face Time, 2021
Video projection, single-channel video, 2:00 min, loop

Constant digital connection creates a very peculiar sense, or space, of missing, that takes a special place in the long-distance relationships. The language of an interface frames every act of intimacy, when we get so close, but instead of feeling each other’s skin, it’s just pixels on the screen. 




©2026 Polina Filippova