DIRECTORY 2025

Sofia Malemina | Digital & Video art

Sofia Malemina (b. 2000, Moscow) is a multimedia artist working with timed-based mediums such as video, sound, light and immersive installations. She established her artistic career in London by blending digital technologies with traditional techniques to explore themes such as identity, perception and the interplay between physical and virtual spaces. A Fine Art graduate of Central Saint Martins (2023), Sofia has exhibited internationally in both solo and group shows, including exhibitions in the UK, Canada and Poland. She pushes the limits of non-profit, conceptual art, challenging traditional spectatorship and encouraging audiences to engage with her evolving, tech-driven showpieces.

In her recent work, Sofia delves into themes of collective psychology, voyeurism, and existentialism, drawing on Jean Baudrillard’s theories of simulacra and simulation. She approaches the camera as an intricate tool for discovery—both revealing and obscuring—while exploring profound questions of capturing absence. 

Evolving from objective to subjective perspectives, Sofia’s art transitions from personal expression to symbolic representation, intentionally leaving space for open interpretation by both herself and the viewer. This evolution is evident in her Nothingness series, where she experiments with abstract forms, interactive installations, and the philosophy of stillness. Influenced by John Cage’s exploration of silence, the experimental spirit of the Fluxus movement, she integrates the bold visual language of Fauvism and postmodernism, challenges audiences to engage with silence and confront the intangible. Sofia’s work invites a deeper dialogue on perception and the delicate balance between presence and absence. Through these explorations, Sofia encourages viewers to question how meaning emerges from emptiness, how silence can speak and how the unseen shapes our perception of reality – blurring the line of what is present and what is merely imagined.

www.sofiamalemina.com
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