Vitaliia Fedorova

Vitaliia Fedorova (b. 1996, Ukraine) is a London-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores the space between introspection and social commentary, transforming personal experiences into collective narratives through storytelling.
Her two-channel video installation CARILLON is a quiet portrait of her 72-year-old grandmother - a refugee who fled Ukraine for Wales. Resisting drama, the film gently lingers in the ordinariness of exile: dyeing her hair, making traditional food, drinking tea — gestures of routine carried out in a semantically and physically unfamiliar environment. The dual screens occasionally align to create imagined panoramic views, expanding the borders of the new woman’s limited reality.  Subtitles - translating her grandmother’s shifting speech between Ukrainian and Russian - play a central role. Rather than offering literal transcription, they act as selective interpretation, emphasising that something always remains untranslatable. In the film, the grandmother is learning English, which becomes a metaphor not just for integration but also for loss. As Hannah Arendt writes in We Refugees, to lose one’s language is to lose the “naturalness of reactions” and the “unaffected expression of feelings.”

Exhibitions at the gallery:

Lost for Words, 2025 (group show)