Victoria Gumienna (b. 2001) is a sculptor whose practice explores time as an embodied, consciously experienced condition. Drawing on phenomenological conceptions of temporality, she considers time not as a linear sequence but as something continually reconstituted through memory, anticipation and presence.

Working across metal, ceramics, electronics, found objects, audio and installation, Gumienna constructs immersive environments that operate at the threshold between material reality and the metaphysical. Industrial structures, relic-like forms and repurposed objects become sites where sound, light and physical matter interact as active temporal agents. Fabricated steel functions as a resonant body that receives and transmits vibration and reclaimed objects become ruin-like architectures around which objects carrying geological, biological and lived temporalities accumulate. Jesmonite forms appear somewhere between sedimentary growth and archaeological excavation, while illuminated porcelain briefly dissolves the distinction between material and immaterial presence. Through vibration, resonance and illumination, these materials
prompt the viewer to encounter duration as something sensed and inhabited rather than objectively measured. Her work often appears simultaneously archaeological and speculative, holding together residues of the past with the possibility of continual
transformation. Rather than resolving into fixed narratives, these material encounters remain suspended in a continual state of becoming, where presence is shaped by what has just elapsed and what is about to emerge.

Time, in her work, thickens into a dense and immersive field, experienced through drift, return, resonance and suspension.