02/06/2026
Meet Natalia Pavlovicova (), who is in her final year, MFA Fine Art (Fine Art Media).
In her art practice, Natalia explores the complex, often unresolved nature of seeking and attempting safety, both on the level of personal experience and within broader institutional frameworks. She focuses on the tendency of safety endeavours to fail, whether because of the fragility, porousness of material conditions, or the vulnerability of security practices to slump into self-perpetuation or overprotection. She is particularly interested in the moments when the safety efforts become ineffective or counterproductive.
Her work takes the form of sculptural installations and media-based pieces. She constructs variations of safe spaces, frequently returning to the form of a shelter, improvised and unstable, and that of a nest, providing protection while defying exclusion, isolation. In her moving-image works, Natalia explores intimate tensions, often within constructed environments where performance is employed as a protective / enabling strategy. Across her practice, she considers how physical form reflects the conceptual thinking behind the work, drawing on a sense of urgency in her installations through the use of provisional materials, such as duct tape and bandages, alongside everyday objects.
Natalia will be showing in our MA/MFA Degree Show, which opens on 12 June.
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1. Natalia Pavlovicova, photo credit: Nicolas Wäckers
2. Nicu, 2025, installation (plywood construction, duct tape, various objects), 82 x 82 x 65 cm 3. Nicu iii, 2026 installation (plywood construction, duct tape, corner shelf, Yale Passive Movement Detector)
4. Carnivxxlesque, 2025, still from video work (16 mm film footage combined with digital video), 2 min 18 s
5. Cherries (Plain things), 2025, selected photograph from series of Polaroids, 10.8 x 8.8 cm each
