Anna Samoylova works with textile, embroidery, installation and print. Her practice is grounded in the study of personal and intergenerational memory, focusing on how domestic materials, women’s labour, and inherited objects hold and transmit intimate histories.

Working with slow, hand-based techniques, Samoylova approaches textile as both a material and an archival language. She incorporates garments and fabrics tied to family narratives, investigating how memory is preserved, embodied or interrupted across generations.

Motherhood is an integral part of Samoylova’s practice—not only as a lived experience, but as a form of resistance. In her work, motherhood becomes a counter-narrative to acceleration, disposability and the invisibility of care labour. By foregrounding tenderness, protection and the daily architectures of care, she asserts the political weight of practices traditionally dismissed as private or feminine.

Her collaborations with independent media and cultural institutions extend this research into public space, bringing visibility to forms of knowledge often rooted in domestic, feminine and diasporic experience. Her installations and prints create environments where private stories can be encountered publicly without losing their emotional precision.

Through her multidisciplinary approach, Samoylova builds a visual language that reflects on belonging, heritage and the fragile, persistent systems through which memory moves between bodies, generations and places.