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
20–25 May, 2026
Raleigh Chapel
138 Church Walk
London N16 8QQ
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Can’t See, Can’t Stop Looking is the debut solo exhibition by London-based artist Polina Filippova, presented at Raleigh Chapel, a newly launched venue for experimental art and sound in Stoke Newington.
Set across the atmospheric chapel interiors, the exhibition brings together sculptural video objects, holographic works, miniature moving-image pieces, interactive installations and new mixed-media works using wax, fragile paper surfaces, sensors and embedded screens.
Figures appear and disappear across the space — hiding behind a tree on screen, suspended on spinning fans, appearing in one darkened portrait, or reduced to intimate handheld scale.
Drawing on personal archives and staged fragments, Filippova creates works that are visually seductive yet emotionally withholding, exploring intimacy, memory and the desire to connect through images.
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