Sofya Skidan, born in 1996 in Ukhta, Russia, is a multidisciplinary artist working across video, sculpture, and sound. She graduated from the Saint-Petersburg State University of Film and Television and the Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia. Since 2022, she has lived and worked in Bali, Indonesia. Alongside her artistic practice, Skidan is also a professional yoga instructor, a discipline reflected in her choice of materials, techniques, and subject matter.

During her residency at Dom Art Projects, Skidan developed new video and sculptural works in preparation for a collaborative presentation at Art Dubai. The residency served as a focused production period for a new video work that will be presented as part of the gallery’s participation in the fair, offering a glimpse into the artist’s evolving exploration of post-digital realities.

She explores ways of perceiving the world as information, engaging with questions of intuition and transformation, reflections on speculative history, and the spectator’s visionary experience. Her work is a site-specific installation, in which artifacts of a post-digital reality are combined with elements of a lost natural landscape, as well as Eastern spiritual practices with modern Western critical theory, reflecting the problems of our time. Tapping into the complexities of the postcontemporary, Skidan raises questions about evolving understandings of identity within today’s technogenic culture, as well as the crisis of nature and the fast-approaching environmental tipping point in the age of the Anthropocene.