Katya Grokhovsky: Point A – Prelude (for Ukraine) @ Essex Flowers Gallery Fest

Solo performance: Point A: Prelude (for Ukraine), 2022, 3 hrs

August 26th 2022 6-9pm

Sound: Sarah Martin-Nuss
Point A: Prelude (for Ukraine) is a durational live action, which serves as an introduction to a multi part, multi venue, mixed media project exploring pain, memory, origin, identity, migration and consequences of war via movement, sound, video and painting. The work employs ritualistic repetitve gestures and spatial choreography, as well as vocal and material experimentation, whilst excavating childhood memories and displacement narratives, highlighting the ongoing genocide and erasure of Ukraine.
Born and raised in Ukraine, Katya Grokhovsky is a New York-based artist, educator and Founding Director of The Immigrant Artist Biennial. She received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a BFA from Victorian College of the Arts, Australia and a BA in Fashion from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Grokhovsky’s work has been supported through numerous residencies including The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Program, Sculpture Space, Tiger Strikes Asteroid NYC STAR Residency, SVA MFA Art Practice AIR, Pratt Fine Arts AIR, MAD Museum Studio Program, BRICworkspace Residency, Ox-BOW School of Art Residency, Wassaic Artist Residency, Atlantic Center for the Arts AIR, Studios at MASS MoCA, Santa Fe Art Institute Residency, Watermill Center, and more. She has been awarded the New American Fellowship, Brooklyn Arts Council Grants, ArtSlant Prize, Australian Council for the Arts Grant, among others. Past exhibitions and performances include Smack Mellon, BRIC Biennial, EFA Project Space, Queens Museum, MAD Museum and more.

Image credit: Katya Grokhovsky, Phone Home, 2021. Photo Walter Wlodarczyk.