Polina Masevnina

°1997
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Polina Masevnina (born in Ryazan, Russia) is a multidisciplinary visual artist and self-publisher based in the Czech Republic. Her practice navigates the intersections of radical intimacy, post-love narratives, pornographic aesthetics, and raw corporeality, using her own body as both subject and instrument. Rooted in liminality and conflict, her work transcends categorical boundaries, merging conceptual rigor with visceral materiality.

Working at the threshold of text and image, Masevnina manipulates language and visual elements to create minimalist yet conceptually charged objects, often infused with contradictory tensions—between the external and internal, the personal and the political. Her practice is marked by an instinctive, visceral, and ambivalent language, one she describes as violent, intimate, narcissistic, and endlessly open to interpretation.
Since 2019, she has been developing and publishing her personal photography series in the form of an intimate diary through self-published editions.

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  • It Is Indeed a Dance (2025) author(s): Polina Masevnina published in: FFA BUT – Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno University of Technology
    It Is Indeed a Dance is a project exploring the emotional, psychological, and cultural shifts within contemporary romantic discourse. Using the metaphor of dance as a dynamic, often asymmetrical interplay between self and other, the project investigates love and post-love conditions marked by ambivalence, hyper-awareness, and emotional fatigue. Drawing on concepts such as limerence, attachment theory, fantasy bonding, and “situationships,” it examines how psychological language has entered everyday dating vocabulary—shaping not only how we talk about love, but how we experience it. Through autotheoretical writing, visual media and spatial compositions, the project seeks to map and mediate intimate dynamics in an era where connection feels both over-analyzed and elusive. It reflects on the contradictions of contemporary intimacy, where vulnerability is praised but rarely safe, and communication is vital yet often ineffective in post-romantic conditions.
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