Information — Elmira Selivanova

Elmira Selivanova is an artist working across moving image, interactive installation, and performance practice, where she blends personal experience and research into social and political phenomena, which is instructed by her academic training in Clinical Psychology and Media art and modern philosophy. Thus, her work is driven by contradiction — taking subjects that appear settled or one-sided and exposing the complexity underneath.

Her pieces are built from data: gathered, systematised, and arranged into narratives that ask audiences to move through them rather than simply observe. Drawing on her background in psychology, Selivanova is drawn to the moment when a perspective shifts — the unreliable narrator, the broken fourth wall, the sudden reframe. Interactive and participatory media allow her to stage these moments, making the viewer a subject as much as a witness.

Recent work includes FPV and Zero, a fictional story about femininity and warfare, presented at the Young Vic Theatre Scratch night, and This Compromised Oil, an investigation into the contradictions of sanctioned Russian oil. Her current project Them and Us extends her practice into workshop-based research, creating game narratives with psychotherapists and people in therapy, continuing her method of collecting voices from multiple roles within the same system and letting their contradictions speak.

Education

2015-2021 Clinical Psychology,
Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow
2023-2024 MA Interaction Design,
University of the Arts London

Exhibitions and Commissions

WHAT IF… JUSTART, LONDON 2026
young vic, rough cut, London 2026

Mates vol 2, London 2026

Making-with, science gallery, london 2024
LCC Graduate Show, London, 2024

Projects