Katya Grokhovsky

My practice can be described as a hybrid of diverse disciplines and mediums that range from visual art performances and actions to site-specific installations and video works. I employ each medium as a tool for an expression of a particular idea or project, whilst using my body and its immediate surroundings, conditions and state of being, as material.

The themes of my practice stem from my personal experience of life in the East and West, under different political regimes, the Soviet and Post-Soviet mentality, dislocation and longing, embodied memories and remnants of my past.

Everything, I have ever attempted to create has always been and will be, affected by the move to the other side of the world. I have lived in Australia for almost fifteen years by now, and even though I have become a “comfortable”, adopted citizen of this land, I sometimes suddenly catch myself standing outside, behind an invisible glass wall, seemingly observing everyone else. It is this almost subconscious, hazy feeling of an outsider that has eventually inevitably led me to artistic road of expression.

 

KATYA GROKHOVSKY PICTURE GALLERY