Polina Isurin

Polina Isurin

  • About
    • Bio & Statement
    • Resume
    • Contact
  • Paintings
  • Installations
    • Beyond Translation: Moving Between/Across/Through Languages as Part of a Research Practice
    • remove, replace, add
    • ASU Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
      • Text & Photo Documentation
      • Ethical Manipulations- Video Projection
      • Justice- Video Projection
    • Rootlessness
      • Text & Photo Documentation
      • Rootlessness recording
    • Buried Secret (Obelisk for the Future)
    • Azores, Portugal
  • Writings, Videos, Mixed Media
    • Mixed Media
    • Writings
      • Obelisk for the Future
      • The (Un) Consumable
      • XY
      • Dокuмент [x] along with artwork 'Nonfunctional Green Card for The Gulf War'
    • Videos
  • Community Murals (in collaboration with students)
  • Archive
Unraveling the Constitution
Law book pages, news articles (In English and Spanish), PVC, wire

It is without question that the foundational documents on which this country was built are being constantly debated. What is the legitimacy of what we read, what we hear, what we learn, and what we teach? Alterations, amendments, and manipulations – these are all required because original texts cannot truly stand the test of time. This sculpture expresses the entanglement of information that we experience. Yet through this entanglement, we manage to exude a stable force of knowledge, logic and justice.


Paper is light, it is fragile, and a single page can easily be torn, tossed, or blown away. As papers accumulate, they gain strength and power. But even the strongest structures can quickly unravel with the slightest push.