Following the success of her solo booth at Photo London in May 2025, Roman Road is proud to present a solo presentation by recent Royal College of Art graduate Polina Piëch as part of the PhotoMonth Photography Festival 2025. This presentation coincides with the launch of Roman Road’s transformed Beyond Studio space, reimagined as a hub for learning, research, and artistic exchange. The new space will host courses, a reference library, and a programme of artist presentations.
With Painted Winds: Fall at Dawn, Polina Piëch creates a consuming environment, combining a soundscape with two large-scale photographs — No Signal and Through a Layered Path — placed side by side to reflect on the cyclical nature of being. In her practice, Piëch visually captures the world’s sentiments of tactility by choosing the elements such as — water, air, earth, and fire — as her subjects.
For this work, Piëch creates a dialogue between air and earth, in which wind becomes both a physical trace and a measure of time. She asks the viewer to pause and look further. When in front of the works, one stops and sees the season change colour, the same way that dawn announces a new day by changing colours and painting the landscape anew.
The exhibition takes place at 69 Roman Road, London, E2 0QN