Studio Lavina is the art practice of Polina Baikina. The work begins from research - into biology, material science, consciousness, the chemistry of forgotten knowledge - and produces objects, installations, and books from the territory the research opens up.

I trained first as an economist. The discipline taught me to look at invisible systems that shape behaviour. The questions stayed the same. The medium changed.

I studied at Parsons in New York and the Design Academy Eindhoven, graduating in 2019. Studio Lavina operates from Amsterdam.

I work slowly. I make few. Each piece is one part sculpture, one part field report from somewhere we have not finished mapping. The studio collaborates with scientists, technologists, and other artists when the research calls for it.