Post #268

New essay on </odra> by Kate Reeve-Edwards exploring the inspiration and meaning behind the works of Katya Granova, a Russian contemporary artist who has recently had an exhibition titled Voices From A Suitcase at the Shtager&Shch Gallery in London. In her practice, she uses old photographs as a composition for large scale visceral paintings in an attempt to infiltrate the past and reimagine the concept of historical memory. "She is thinking about time, treating images of her mother or a stranger in exactly the same way. They are both vessels of past occurrences that haunt the present. She is listening to the voices in her suitcase, plucking them out and layering them on her canvas. Through this cacophony of mark and opinion, Granova can see the truth of experience." read on the platform