Ellen Sheidlin's surreal worlds move from digital to physical

Russian artist Ellen Sheidlin, born in Saratov in 1994 and known for her 'survirtualism' style, is evolving her practice from digital surrealism toward more physical, theatrical, and personal works. Her recent photographs increasingly replace photomontage with real sets, handmade objects, costumes, and installations that evoke uneasy dreams. Self-portraits remain central but become more essential, less chaotic, and suspended. Bodies merge with fabrics, tears transform into matter, and faces hide within minimal, symbolic compositions. Sheidlin uses photography not only to visually astonish but to convey fragility, transformation, and intimate emotional states. She states, 'My work is a way to contain all my imagination.' The article features a gallery of her latest images.