EMMA VARGA

Emma Varga

is a lens-based and mixed-media artist working between Hungary and London. She is currently pursuing an MA in Art and Science at the University of the Arts London, Central Saint Martins, having previously completed a BA in Fine Art Photography in Budapest. Her first photobook, Vox Victimae (2025), was shortlisted for Paris Photo Carte Blanche Students and the Hungarian Book Design Award. Her work has been exhibited across Hungary, the UK, Belgium, and Slovakia.

Varga’s practice began with photography and has expanded across experimental photography, scientific imaging, sculpture, printmaking, bioart, and holography. She investigates how images are constructed, how they acquire authority, and what happens when they are altered, fragmented, transformed, or destroyed. Drawing on artistic and scientific methodologies, she works with microscopy, biological processes, and experimental image-making to explore the body, reality, knowledge, and systems of power. Her work is grounded in the grotesque, exploring the intersections of art and science and an interest in material transformation, where decay, fragmentation, and destruction become ways of questioning the stability of the image.