Szilvia Bolla (1992, Budapest, Hungary) is an artist working between Budapest, Hungary and The Hague, The Netherlands. She explores the intimate and vulnerable exchange between humans and artefacts through sculpture, installation and photography. She refers to her practice as cryptophotographic, as it stems from the post-medium condition and the fluidity between image and object ontologies. Within her practice, she tackles matter as a vibrant agent, whether material or immaterial, visible or invisible, living or dead engaging to evoke narratives of survival and critical thinking concerning the body, politics and technology. After graduating from Fine Art Photography course at Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London, she completed the MA Photography course of Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest in addition to studying Spatial Design at the Universitat der Kunste Berlin. In recent years, Szilvia Bolla’s work has been presented at the Stefan Gierowski Foundation, Warsaw; the Art Quarter Project Space and the Trafó Gallery, Budapest; Semester 9 and the Unseen Photography Festival, Amsterdam, as well as the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. She has been an artist in residence at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (2019), the International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York (2022), and the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (2023). Since 2021, she’s one half of Alagya, a world built together with Áron Lődi to construct new possible forms of literacy to decode planetary life in the (post-) capitalocene through collaborative work and interplay between sculpture, installation and text.