Stella Polare / the Spaces of Minotaure

ARTISTIC STATEMENT

My practice investigates how inherited systems of meaning acquire bodies and continue to shape the ways we orient ourselves within contemporary culture.

Working across drawing, textile, installation and artist’s books, I often begin with a cultural or linguistic element — a gesture, a character, an ornament, a textile, a proverb or a fragmented memory — and follow the transformations it undergoes when displaced from its original context.

Recurring figures such as the Minotaur function as navigational devices within this practice. Moving between mythology, cultural memory and everyday life, the character changes scale, context and meaning while remaining part of a recognizable visual language.

Moving between Central Asian and European cultural contexts, I approach cultural symbols not as fixed representations of heritage, but as living structures shaped by repetition, translation and displacement.

Through these transformations, characters, objects and inherited signs become contemporary forms through which memory, belonging and cultural instability can be reconsidered.