Poline Grishina is a visual artist from Brooklyn, New York. She received a BFA from The Cooper Union in 2024, and graduated with the Elliot Lash Memorial Prize for Excellence in Sculpture. She is currently based in Brooklyn, NY.

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Photography has an indexical relationship to the past - it portrays something that has already occurred. When exhibited in a space, photographs transport you to a different time and place. Sculpture, however, exists in the space time and place as we do. When combined, they make a piece that is both here and there; both true and false. In my work, I try to understand our relationship to the past with sculptures that attempt to break these temporal boundaries.

Where does our childhood bedroom exist when we no longer live there?