[MA SCULPTURE 26’] Artist Spotlight
Victoria Gumienna (b. 2001) is a sculptor whose practice explores solitude as a generative condition through which sensory, affective and temporal perception becomes heightened and unstable. Her work considers time as an embodied and conscious condition: rather than something portioned and measurable, she sees it as emergent from lived experience. Drawing on the phenomenological understanding of time as inseparable from consciousness, she investigates how temporal experience unfolds in a non-linear way - fluid and ever-shifting.
Working across metal, ceramics, found objects, audio and installation, Gumienna constructs environments that operate at the threshold between matter and the metaphysical. Through the interplay of light, sound, and spatial interaction, her work invites an encounter with the physical states in which time is not simply passed through but actively engaged with - expanding, contracting and accumulating within the act of perception.
These encounters don’t resolve into fixed moments but remain in a state of becoming, where presence is continuously shaped by what has just elapsed and what is about to emerge; time settles into a dense, immersive field that rather than unfolding sequentially, is sensed through drift, return and suspension.
While solitude is often framed as isolating, Gumienna approaches it as a generative state: one capable of elevating awareness, deepening engagement with the physical and opening access to temporal and metaphysical dimensions that exist beyond everyday perception.
Very excited to be part of Soft Ground with @elephantvisionlab ! Catch me at Show 2, reflecting memory and time 🐚
Open: 16-18 December
PV: 16th December, 5:30-8:30
Will be showing ISLE I as part of Somewhere Elsewhere curated by @littlenoia Dec 6-15th ! 🐚
Private view: 6 Dec, 6-9 pm
Open: 7 – 15 Dec, 12-6 pm
Lewisham Arthouse, 140 Lewisham Way, London SE14 6PD
![[MA SCULPTURE 26’] Artist SpotlightVictoria Gumienna (b. 2001) is a sculptor whose practice explores solitude as a generative condition through which sensory, affective and temporal perception becomes heightened and unstable. Her work considers time as an embodied and conscious condition: rather than something portioned and measurable, she sees it as emergent from lived experience. Drawing on the phenomenological understanding of time as inseparable from consciousness, she investigates how temporal experience unfolds in a non-linear way - fluid and ever-shifting.Working across metal, ceramics, found objects, audio and installation, Gumienna constructs environments that operate at the threshold between matter and the metaphysical. Through the interplay of light, sound, and spatial interaction, her work invites an encounter with the physical states in which time is not simply passed through but actively engaged with - expanding, contracting and accumulating within the act of perception.These encounters don’t resolve into fixed moments but remain in a state of becoming, where presence is continuously shaped by what has just elapsed and what is about to emerge; time settles into a dense, immersive field that rather than unfolding sequentially, is sensed through drift, return and suspension.While solitude is often framed as isolating, Gumienna approaches it as a generative state: one capable of elevating awareness, deepening engagement with the physical and opening access to temporal and metaphysical dimensions that exist beyond everyday perception.](https://sp1.picnob.com/p/pt_6739334264111573641344_0_c7c990c51932621bc4cc89a84b2fbae9.jpg?o=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&h=58d78d7236f9d9550e239c92dc5a8d15)
