https://olgagrotova.com Olga Grotova Wed, 10 Apr 2024 13:16:18 +0000 https://olgagrotova.com en https://olgagrotova.com/Paintings Fri, 22 Dec 2023 19:44:52 +0000 Olga Grotova https://olgagrotova.com/Paintings <img width="1670" height="2048" width_o="1670" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3244443ee9e7a0f56748d99d9b776deecd1cc2b31a256d0a31b44439d1146db7/1.jpg" data-mid="208665631" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3244443ee9e7a0f56748d99d9b776deecd1cc2b31a256d0a31b44439d1146db7/1.jpg" /> <img width="1541" height="2048" width_o="1541" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d7027c91e8d20078984f5754b8814ec4e7a5b6e24a4e6c9a157493141604d044/1-1.jpg" data-mid="208665630" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d7027c91e8d20078984f5754b8814ec4e7a5b6e24a4e6c9a157493141604d044/1-1.jpg" /> Yadro (Nucleus), 2024 Haematite, soil, pigments and photograms, on linen <img width="1676" height="2048" width_o="1676" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/86ab4061383d93f0551393c856d495a83811b44c731c8b802b7bae3800b7ba6b/Virgin-Lands.jpeg" data-mid="208665638" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/86ab4061383d93f0551393c856d495a83811b44c731c8b802b7bae3800b7ba6b/Virgin-Lands.jpeg" /> <img width="1536" height="2048" width_o="1536" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2d8bcf3d1bfa14ee3e173755319926aa89972242480284daee529ecd8006123c/Virgin-lands-detail.jpeg" data-mid="208665634" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2d8bcf3d1bfa14ee3e173755319926aa89972242480284daee529ecd8006123c/Virgin-lands-detail.jpeg" /> Virgin Lands, 2024 Haematite, azurite, pigments and photograms, on linen <img width="1686" height="2048" width_o="1686" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3bf37872834f563a9575e278cf85bb88221d7385d1e0ff94ced349cdc48dadc2/Slovo-Her-Word.jpeg" data-mid="208665636" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3bf37872834f563a9575e278cf85bb88221d7385d1e0ff94ced349cdc48dadc2/Slovo-Her-Word.jpeg" /> <img width="1536" height="2048" width_o="1536" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/850e3ac3457c3a6cc128ae05d6fede451d70aa5dfbf3f0761285306b18c644a9/Slovo-detail.jpeg" data-mid="208665633" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/850e3ac3457c3a6cc128ae05d6fede451d70aa5dfbf3f0761285306b18c644a9/Slovo-detail.jpeg" /> Slovo (Her Word), 2024 Haematite, soil, pigments, hair and photograms, on linen <img width="3214" height="4500" width_o="3214" height_o="4500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ee83cb9f3948514c06bd5f08d27cc3efd09d10dba0002233d17952a932d72d35/Olga_Grotova_Paintings_Research_02_2023_HIRES-3.jpeg" data-mid="200010571" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ee83cb9f3948514c06bd5f08d27cc3efd09d10dba0002233d17952a932d72d35/Olga_Grotova_Paintings_Research_02_2023_HIRES-3.jpeg" /> Yavlenie Urals soil, Baikal lake lazurite,&nbsp;pigments, photograms, on linen <img width="1786" height="2500" width_o="1786" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/87f410b7735578a4053644cea7bddac4f7a16253c852de6e5e79c3dcbbc2cd38/Olga_Grotova_Paintings_Research_02_2023_LORES-2.jpeg" data-mid="200010578" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/87f410b7735578a4053644cea7bddac4f7a16253c852de6e5e79c3dcbbc2cd38/Olga_Grotova_Paintings_Research_02_2023_LORES-2.jpeg" /> <img width="3214" height="4500" width_o="3214" height_o="4500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1af7a6b3f4c5ecce5c6ab7b2400f7d9fa30301650b2d446df59fd3c9d97a9ab7/Olga_Grotova_Paintings_Research_02_2023_HIRES-25.jpeg" data-mid="200010910" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1af7a6b3f4c5ecce5c6ab7b2400f7d9fa30301650b2d446df59fd3c9d97a9ab7/Olga_Grotova_Paintings_Research_02_2023_HIRES-25.jpeg" /> Rana (Wound) Urals soil, photogram, pigments, hair, on linen <img width="3214" height="4500" width_o="3214" height_o="4500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/97735253fbccaf4a196d4ac4db883e5d9680b0ee705a0204c5acdc1157b07ad3/Olga_Grotova_Paintings_Research_02_2023_HIRES-6.jpeg" data-mid="200010591" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/97735253fbccaf4a196d4ac4db883e5d9680b0ee705a0204c5acdc1157b07ad3/Olga_Grotova_Paintings_Research_02_2023_HIRES-6.jpeg" /> Svet&nbsp; Pigments on linen <img width="3214" height="4500" width_o="3214" height_o="4500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/509a1ee22c5157fdee57e3ae6cdd1941c20b51de99183ce25d03b30f5fa58e26/Olga_Grotova_Paintings_Research_02_2023_HIRES-4.jpeg" data-mid="200010606" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/509a1ee22c5157fdee57e3ae6cdd1941c20b51de99183ce25d03b30f5fa58e26/Olga_Grotova_Paintings_Research_02_2023_HIRES-4.jpeg" /><img width="3214" height="4500" width_o="3214" height_o="4500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/87cf0ef49a9b1541a8f9478c3d0a8e5eec084b2dce8b79923f8fceeda39b412d/Olga_Grotova_Paintings_Research_02_2023_HIRES-19.jpeg" data-mid="200010913" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/87cf0ef49a9b1541a8f9478c3d0a8e5eec084b2dce8b79923f8fceeda39b412d/Olga_Grotova_Paintings_Research_02_2023_HIRES-19.jpeg" /> Uprooted Stockings Urals soil, photograms, pigments, on linen <img width="3214" height="4500" width_o="3214" height_o="4500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f2fccbe4eab935dc172a0e1028d11d8d7c83c044dea2d9d0bdd0ac5d3513d059/Olga_Grotova_Paintings_Research_02_2023_HIRES.jpeg" data-mid="200010810" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f2fccbe4eab935dc172a0e1028d11d8d7c83c044dea2d9d0bdd0ac5d3513d059/Olga_Grotova_Paintings_Research_02_2023_HIRES.jpeg" /><img width="3214" height="4500" width_o="3214" height_o="4500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/72f76cb1bce7bf08cbb53e19df5b94540d7fd999b6ab7b5d1656ea0787bc309a/Olga_Grotova_Paintings_Research_02_2023_HIRES-29.jpeg" data-mid="200011379" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/72f76cb1bce7bf08cbb53e19df5b94540d7fd999b6ab7b5d1656ea0787bc309a/Olga_Grotova_Paintings_Research_02_2023_HIRES-29.jpeg" /> Rising Blue Soil, Lake Baikal azurite, pigments, photograms, on linen <img width="3214" height="4500" width_o="3214" height_o="4500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7b8bc4de667a805fdf6cdcc3da4ad55accdbdae78eb24336f339f71b28e9c3bb/Olga_Grotova_Paintings_Research_02_2023_HIRES-5.jpeg" data-mid="200011418" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7b8bc4de667a805fdf6cdcc3da4ad55accdbdae78eb24336f339f71b28e9c3bb/Olga_Grotova_Paintings_Research_02_2023_HIRES-5.jpeg" /> Sled (Footprint) Urals soil, photograms, pigments, on linen<img width="3214" height="4500" width_o="3214" height_o="4500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/64791589b6a84fe98138c3df7b389deee64375a5386e1166f206c1cf5aeb31e3/Olga_Grotova_Paintings_Research_02_2023_HIRES-8.jpeg" data-mid="200011392" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/64791589b6a84fe98138c3df7b389deee64375a5386e1166f206c1cf5aeb31e3/Olga_Grotova_Paintings_Research_02_2023_HIRES-8.jpeg" /> Sledi Pigments and photograms, on linen <img width="1786" height="2500" width_o="1786" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cfb9d36cf4aa653079ffb4761325eb0abc1c477afdb945dfce45d7bb39fd076e/Olga_Grotova_Paintings__09_2023_LORES_49.jpg" data-mid="200011591" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cfb9d36cf4aa653079ffb4761325eb0abc1c477afdb945dfce45d7bb39fd076e/Olga_Grotova_Paintings__09_2023_LORES_49.jpg" /><img width="1786" height="2500" width_o="1786" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/de94a9fd7bee4e666b88f754d1b870f2ce06f3804765155de52c7a6ab7a48479/Olga_Grotova_Paintings__09_2023_LORES_43.jpg" data-mid="200011595" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/de94a9fd7bee4e666b88f754d1b870f2ce06f3804765155de52c7a6ab7a48479/Olga_Grotova_Paintings__09_2023_LORES_43.jpg" /> Atomic Lakes Soil, pigments, photograms, on linen<img width="3942" height="5913" width_o="3942" height_o="5913" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5dfa7708e1ea03808ffe492e3976bb5e2c3d96e25eb408d31648c3e6bbd8034d/DSCF2651-copy.jpeg" data-mid="200011996" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5dfa7708e1ea03808ffe492e3976bb5e2c3d96e25eb408d31648c3e6bbd8034d/DSCF2651-copy.jpeg" /> Solntse Soil and pigments, on linen <img width="5902" height="3935" width_o="5902" height_o="3935" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3ab3493d17129664ee241288557cf582f384ff24c16b3b380d6659e4f61b0bd1/DSCF2647.jpeg" data-mid="200012009" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3ab3493d17129664ee241288557cf582f384ff24c16b3b380d6659e4f61b0bd1/DSCF2647.jpeg" /> S1 (Sheffield) installation view <img width="1786" height="2500" width_o="1786" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d521fc77cc52e4413634489ce80d76d5ca07c8ea6d091d559b13e771dc5c7b72/Olga_Grotova_Paintings__09_2023_LORES_26.jpg" data-mid="200011616" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d521fc77cc52e4413634489ce80d76d5ca07c8ea6d091d559b13e771dc5c7b72/Olga_Grotova_Paintings__09_2023_LORES_26.jpg" /> Sunkissed Cyanotype and pigments, on rice paper, on linen https://olgagrotova.com/Re-enchantment Wed, 10 Apr 2024 13:16:18 +0000 Olga Grotova https://olgagrotova.com/Re-enchantment Re-enchantment Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris2024 Grotova begins her works in the darkroom, using traditional, analogue, camera-less photographic techniques to layer the presence of plants and her own body. In her most recent pieces, she also worked with her mother to create images of their two bodies. The images are then layered with earth and stone pigments, notably haematite – ‘the blood stone’. The strata and traces created by this process reflect the way in which soil archives its encounters, without hierarchy. The work’s stratification combined with its relationship to the non-hierarchical nature of soil, disrupts understanding of patriarchal, human-centric narratives, such as those of the totalitarianism. Oona Doyle Curator, Thaddaeus Ropac <img width="1238" height="826" width_o="1238" height_o="826" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0860b981f80a9abefe61836968e2bed41f6d173a4efbee8bc263a063acbf8b4e/31.jpg" data-mid="208665801" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0860b981f80a9abefe61836968e2bed41f6d173a4efbee8bc263a063acbf8b4e/31.jpg" /> ‘I was born hours before Chernobyl, on 25th April 1986. This sentence holds two events. One a catastrophe that destroyed thousands of square kilometres of land and the lives of millions of people, and in the words of Svetlana Alexievich, the flow of time itself: ‘Chernobyl is, above all, a catastrophe of time’. The second is the event of birth, the happening between mother and daughter in which they separate, a splitting of a whole into two. The lower part of Yadro (Nucleus), 2024 is a photogram of myself and my mother framed by ashy white weeds and a dance of marks. Always holding on to one another whilst being pulled apart, fixed by light whilst fading away.’ <img width="2477" height="1651" width_o="2477" height_o="1651" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b8f2c95d05ba9ff79f97e21881d9e41a26a37bd2c53c23dccac8784a02dfbe67/install-view.jpg" data-mid="208665796" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b8f2c95d05ba9ff79f97e21881d9e41a26a37bd2c53c23dccac8784a02dfbe67/install-view.jpg" /> <img width="2477" height="1651" width_o="2477" height_o="1651" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5af2f604e86db1679e49ffb583f053b528224166061dab96c37af900978c1136/9.jpg" data-mid="208665797" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5af2f604e86db1679e49ffb583f053b528224166061dab96c37af900978c1136/9.jpg" /> ‘When my great grandmother Klavdia was released from the camp of Wives of Traitors to the Motherland she wasn’t allowed to return home but had to remain in Kazakhstan for another fifteen years, until the death of Stalin. Thus, like other former inmates of the camp, she got a job on the construction of the new railway — a strategic route for coal transportation. The women were doing hard labour of laying and servicing the tracks and lived in the designated shared barracks — the ‘Railway builders’ town’. My half-German grandmother remembered how the women would gather around the small stream in the end of the day to launder the workwear, theirs and that of the male workers.’ <img width="4128" height="2752" width_o="4128" height_o="2752" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0bda28e1e970574d651507fef4f13196ce13b4793f5f62650a52eba6a49fe955/30large.jpg" data-mid="208665793" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0bda28e1e970574d651507fef4f13196ce13b4793f5f62650a52eba6a49fe955/30large.jpg" /> <img width="2477" height="1651" width_o="2477" height_o="1651" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c6c8972ba320b13388b47c8d9e85b0e45d09ad127f2dfc7a5d3aa2a19efb1ad9/7.jpg" data-mid="208665795" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c6c8972ba320b13388b47c8d9e85b0e45d09ad127f2dfc7a5d3aa2a19efb1ad9/7.jpg" /> Soil Time, 2024 Mugwort, Soviet railway map, pages from Paysant Woman magazine (c.1950s), stocking, soil, ash ‘Soil Time, 2024 contains mugwort that my mother Tatiana and I collected on the research trip to the former site of the gulag camp of Wives of Traitors to the Motherland where my great-grandmother and grandmother were detained from 1937 to 1945. After the death of Stalin, the camp was raised to the ground and all the evidence of its existence was eradicated. What used to be a prison that housed thousands of women is now a field of grass: the plants are both witnesses of the land’s traumatic history and a symbol of its regeneration. In the vitrine, plants are layered with Soviet propaganda images of women at work and the railway map that was used to transport coal from Kazakhstan to Russia which was built by former female inmates. The layered space makes connections between the land exploitation and the erased female histories.’ https://olgagrotova.com/Griselda-talk Fri, 22 Dec 2023 20:00:24 +0000 Olga Grotova https://olgagrotova.com/Griselda-talk OLGA GROTOVA AND GRISELDA POLLOCK IN CONVERSATION Studio Voltaire May 2023 Olga Grotova was joined by renowned feminist art historian Griselda Pollock, in a discussion that centred on Grotova's practice-based research project, The Friendship Garden. Grotova and Pollock discussed the power of art, specifically film and painting, as mediums to examine historical and intergenerational trauma. ⁠ ⁠ Through the lens of Pollock's work on concentrationism, affect and the aesthetics of resistance, they discussed the need for art that disturbs and interrupts dominant narratives, brings to light forgotten and obscured histories and that shakes or shocks us into action. ⁠ ⁠ Watch here <img width="1772" height="1774" width_o="1772" height_o="1774" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d218a6ab381629c0687f78120b4b4d503bacd1de276e0129c14522b632ac26d7/OlgaGriselda.png" data-mid="200011929" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d218a6ab381629c0687f78120b4b4d503bacd1de276e0129c14522b632ac26d7/OlgaGriselda.png" /> https://olgagrotova.com/Studio-Voltaire Fri, 22 Dec 2023 20:26:54 +0000 Olga Grotova https://olgagrotova.com/Studio-Voltaire THE FRIENDSHIP GARDEN Studio Voltaire, London 2023 <img width="1700" height="1297" width_o="1700" height_o="1297" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e968f6a6d203ed240b3aa832f4491fa06ce4f5b292430b67792b5d801a0965f8/Screenshot-2023-02-21-at-13.52.49-copy.jpg" data-mid="200011773" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e968f6a6d203ed240b3aa832f4491fa06ce4f5b292430b67792b5d801a0965f8/Screenshot-2023-02-21-at-13.52.49-copy.jpg" /> Olga Grotova’s solo exhibition comprises new work produced as part of the artist’s ongoing project, The Friendship Garden. This project explores the land cultivation practices of Soviet women and female resistance to the authoritarian state. The Friendship Garden takes the history of the artist’s grandmothers’ garden in the Urals as a prompt to explore alternative economic systems based on friendship, cooperation, and care across diverse communities, diasporas and generations. Through this marginalised female history, Grotova explores gardening as means of resistance to patriarchy and oppression and opens up public discussions about the consequences of Soviet and British colonialism, the body’s connection to the land and friendship as an alternative economic force. Whilst women and marginalised people still have to carve out spaces for themselves, gardens serve as a powerful tool to express oneself and thrive. The project’s starting point is the history of ‘Friendship’, an allotment cooperative where Grotova’s great-grandmother, Klavdia, and her grandmother, Marina, had a plot for three decades from the 1960s, in the aftermath of their return from ALZHIR – an all-female gulag camp for ‘Wives of Traitors to the Motherland’. In a little-known and under-documented episode in Soviet history, thousands of foreign nationals who had moved to Russia in the 1930s were rounded up and executed, a violent and tragic exercise in scapegoating that left grief and trauma in its wake. The wives and children of these 'Traitors to the Motherland' were taken to an all-female gulag in Kazakhstan, and Grotova's great-grandmother Klavdia and grandmother Marina were among those forcibly moved there. Later on, after their return from the gulag, Klavdia and Marina, like many other women, made their own allotment, continuing the practice of cooperation and mutual help that had been their lifeline. The 'Friendship Garden' privileged the core human value of attachment and care. Their garden’s timeline ran parallel to the Cold War but existed outside official history, instead existing in sync with the lunar cycles, plants, and lives of the female gardeners. The garden became a site where the women’s trauma could be processed through engagement with the land and with each other. The installation frames Grotova's film, To my daughter I will say (2023), within a layered painted space that includes imprints of Grotova’s body, drawings, archival materials and gestures, bringing soil and plants found on research journeys into contact with the work’s complex narrative. <img width="2500" height="1668" width_o="2500" height_o="1668" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2093a7854ce84a36faac96693811c401a8d309a6419d56a31a732b6298928bbc/Olga_Grotova_Studio_Voltaire_Lores_28.jpg" data-mid="200011825" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2093a7854ce84a36faac96693811c401a8d309a6419d56a31a732b6298928bbc/Olga_Grotova_Studio_Voltaire_Lores_28.jpg" /><img width="2500" height="1668" width_o="2500" height_o="1668" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8c8b5a00ba4418eb9489f7ef4b86dbd7011514b975211c266d5d516ba78350e6/Olga_Grotova_Studio_Voltaire_Lores_39.jpg" data-mid="200011861" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8c8b5a00ba4418eb9489f7ef4b86dbd7011514b975211c266d5d516ba78350e6/Olga_Grotova_Studio_Voltaire_Lores_39.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1668" width_o="2500" height_o="1668" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b6c216450cc52045ca50dfad2fcbd55aa96329856bc52f0f2ad475eb3dc43e66/Olga_Grotova_Studio_Voltaire_Lores_14.jpg" data-mid="200011875" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b6c216450cc52045ca50dfad2fcbd55aa96329856bc52f0f2ad475eb3dc43e66/Olga_Grotova_Studio_Voltaire_Lores_14.jpg" /> https://olgagrotova.com/Arles Wed, 07 Sep 2022 14:50:32 +0000 Olga Grotova https://olgagrotova.com/Arles Our Grandmothers’ Gardens The Rencontres d’Arles2022 <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ee6175b830a6d7efe321ed2f94e2087b8f0a4dfca5f911132c945c675d652623/IMG_1874.jpeg" data-mid="152314483" border="0" 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c9ab469ea6a40e00e35e9a7cf53dfaf5a8ab3b7e0ae1ad29278b00f44dc029fa/2.Grotova_Arles_HiRes_Feb_2022-2.jpg" data-mid="153553023" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c9ab469ea6a40e00e35e9a7cf53dfaf5a8ab3b7e0ae1ad29278b00f44dc029fa/2.Grotova_Arles_HiRes_Feb_2022-2.jpg" /> For the exhibition Our Grandmothers' Gardens, Olga Grotova tells the story of her ancestors and country using three media: a film, historical magazines, and two works on paper. The film recounts the artist’s return to the Ural Mountains with her mother. They go out to find a parcel of land that belonged to her great-grandmother in the Soviet era, then to her grandmother, ending up in collective ownership. The artist’s viewpoint on this space of true self-determination is a tribute to the agency of these women. In the archive, we see Soviet propaganda campaigns boasting of women farmers. Finally, completing the set, are two works on paper made by superimposing images and materials, notably that of earth taken from the gardens themselves. Taous Dahmani, Curator https://olgagrotova.com/Althamer Wed, 14 Sep 2022 10:17:10 +0000 Olga Grotova https://olgagrotova.com/Althamer The Friendship Garden&nbsp; (Sound work) Paweł Althamer's Garden ‘Silence’2022 <img width="1600" height="1067" width_o="1600" height_o="1067" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d4de5ba237133d690111c8ac0bc6ed7ffa77012960f204aa88ead428e8d2bdc0/large_file-2b8c95a4-49e6-4e4d-a868-8ffe07a5a19d.jpeg" data-mid="152919516" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d4de5ba237133d690111c8ac0bc6ed7ffa77012960f204aa88ead428e8d2bdc0/large_file-2b8c95a4-49e6-4e4d-a868-8ffe07a5a19d.jpeg" /> <img width="1600" height="1067" width_o="1600" height_o="1067" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f9465746cf054707badda2f9fd8c26116abd9056f91bd3b31f0d3db4ffcb4fa6/large_file-761641dc-8729-48d9-9733-5dc340c7baa6.jpeg" data-mid="152919517" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f9465746cf054707badda2f9fd8c26116abd9056f91bd3b31f0d3db4ffcb4fa6/large_file-761641dc-8729-48d9-9733-5dc340c7baa6.jpeg" /> <img width="1600" height="1067" width_o="1600" height_o="1067" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6a77dc998d6eb93627de172f512b7389697b0dde16633726a47135a18d7c302d/large_file-c8db34e3-2bc0-421f-9f3f-98ec3c7f2dab.jpeg" data-mid="152920516" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6a77dc998d6eb93627de172f512b7389697b0dde16633726a47135a18d7c302d/large_file-c8db34e3-2bc0-421f-9f3f-98ec3c7f2dab.jpeg" /> Paweł Althamer's installation SilencePhoto: Dmitry Shumov <img width="2428" height="1888" width_o="2428" height_o="1888" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5cc0abd5b6a8575b3b5645328e01cd44d80056872726991d3c8f560155e42935/Screenshot-2022-08-18-at-22.59.45.png" data-mid="152919518" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5cc0abd5b6a8575b3b5645328e01cd44d80056872726991d3c8f560155e42935/Screenshot-2022-08-18-at-22.59.45.png" /> Mum, Kazakhstan, 8mm film,&nbsp; 2022 &nbsp; The Friendshio garden is a sound work included in the spatial installation Silence by Paweł Althamer. The work is based on the poem about my grandmothers’ return to Urals after imprisonment in the Camp for Wives of Traitors to the Motherland in the 1930s.&nbsp;To Althamer, each element of the garden—be it a fallen tree or a particular deciduous bush—is a hidden quote, while the composition as a whole is a unique environment where the restless city dweller of today can alter the regime of time, as if transported to a picturesque space in a past era, where the rhythm and pace of life were not by default accelerated to the limit. The work can be listened to online&nbsp;via the Soundcloud&nbsp; (in Russian) https://olgagrotova.com/Debris Wed, 07 Sep 2022 14:50:32 +0000 Olga Grotova https://olgagrotova.com/Debris Debris on a Luminous Plain Centrala, Birmingham (Solo exhibition)Garage Museum of Contemporary Art 2019- 2021 <img width="1631" height="2447" width_o="1631" height_o="2447" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/38ff92c3a348d03050d9a5a8ab0dfe96638472e0ed754f3a8fd6dae08f7db92d/Centrala---Olga-Grotova---LR7.jpg" data-mid="152314878" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/38ff92c3a348d03050d9a5a8ab0dfe96638472e0ed754f3a8fd6dae08f7db92d/Centrala---Olga-Grotova---LR7.jpg" /> <img width="3894" height="5841" width_o="3894" height_o="5841" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d47a37e35b095f962b648b3e6264dcf035f1fa25cbc35132d116dc4582eb7b3a/DSC05608.jpeg" data-mid="152314901" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d47a37e35b095f962b648b3e6264dcf035f1fa25cbc35132d116dc4582eb7b3a/DSC05608.jpeg" /> <img width="3842" height="5109" width_o="3842" height_o="5109" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c7dff26cd3e175ab5d35830ce25b0a19779606a615d672398a670a3633b0becc/Fifth-Wave-Grotova3.jpg" data-mid="152314957" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c7dff26cd3e175ab5d35830ce25b0a19779606a615d672398a670a3633b0becc/Fifth-Wave-Grotova3.jpg" /> <img width="5325" height="3550" width_o="5325" height_o="3550" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/11e17efd7f7d4fa1f5aea412108e7b76ecc562857cd8fab1733c4567dab077a0/Olga-Grotova_Fifth-Wave.jpg" data-mid="152314975" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/11e17efd7f7d4fa1f5aea412108e7b76ecc562857cd8fab1733c4567dab077a0/Olga-Grotova_Fifth-Wave.jpg" /> In present-day Russia there is an untold history of the hundreds of thousands of women who were executed or forcedly resettled to the Gulag, the system of forced labour camps across the Soviet Union. Many of them were wives and mothers of men pronounced the ‘Enemies of the People’ (Vragi Naroda): ethnic minorities, affluent peasants, academics, Germans, Jews and Poles that were thought a threat to the Soviet regime. The women were arrested at night, sentenced without trial and hauled to the country’s remotest regions. One of the biggest all-female penal facility was the camp for ‘Wives of the Traitors of the Motherland’ also known as ‘Algiers’ (А.Л.Ж.И.Р) where tens of thousands were detained, amongst them thousands of mothers with their small children. In the recent decades the Russian state has done everything to obliterate the history of ‘Algiers’ and other forced-labour camps: they are not featured in history books and are not subjects of state-commissioned monuments and remembrance ceremonies. The female prisoners’ stories have been twisted and re-written to justify the ordeal, but mostly they have been silenced; instead they exist like worm tunnels that weave through the monolith of Russia’s history, filling it with voids and fractures. Debris on a Luminous Plain is based on my grandmother’s memories of ‘Algiers’ and the Kazakh steppe where the camp was located. She arrived there in 1938 as a one-year old baby with her mother, my great grandmother, and they returned back to Russia twenty years later. The knowledge that rests in between those temporal indents is fractured and disjointed, akin to the slippages of the tongue that would incessantly fail to form a narrative. <img width="2333" height="1667" width_o="2333" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/afd6315214791041f456c72733b308e9434b054d29d79d7bddf1b53e8a30aaba/Centrala---Olga-Grotova---HR13.jpg" data-mid="152314828" border="0" data-scale="89" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/afd6315214791041f456c72733b308e9434b054d29d79d7bddf1b53e8a30aaba/Centrala---Olga-Grotova---HR13.jpg" /> Debris on A Luminous Plain Centrala, 2019 <img width="1060" height="1484" width_o="1060" height_o="1484" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9378c412a52d9745c4f5a64cd2153220bbab3ff21aa1a77490df5ec405a65f5f/Olga_Grotova_paintings_11_18_03.jpg" data-mid="153552544" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9378c412a52d9745c4f5a64cd2153220bbab3ff21aa1a77490df5ec405a65f5f/Olga_Grotova_paintings_11_18_03.jpg" /> <img width="1067" height="1494" width_o="1067" height_o="1494" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a5ee45528dab2e3dcd8ab448780b48bd8f98569a7f10054ef23722d9f2cb6505/Olga_Grotova_paintings_11_18_05.jpg" data-mid="153552464" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a5ee45528dab2e3dcd8ab448780b48bd8f98569a7f10054ef23722d9f2cb6505/Olga_Grotova_paintings_11_18_05.jpg" /> <img width="1043" height="1460" width_o="1043" height_o="1460" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2e15ce932646053f92f51c7649d147ab3b08c44605b4e925f84ac17036457e1e/Olga_Grotova_paintings_11_18_02.jpg" data-mid="153552483" border="0" data-scale="46" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2e15ce932646053f92f51c7649d147ab3b08c44605b4e925f84ac17036457e1e/Olga_Grotova_paintings_11_18_02.jpg" /> <img width="1063" height="1488" width_o="1063" height_o="1488" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/27ab898f8c7c669cee97812bef1e64d8cd10221127866949e4964afcd2cce808/Olga_Grotova_paintings_11_18_04.jpg" data-mid="153552552" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/27ab898f8c7c669cee97812bef1e64d8cd10221127866949e4964afcd2cce808/Olga_Grotova_paintings_11_18_04.jpg" /> <img width="2166" height="1444" width_o="2166" height_o="1444" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0e7a2f6ed8cd3e0a3b59b5a369ac1d5b9aac800a607e3e50dbd1e456eca0976b/Grotova-debris-performance.jpg" data-mid="152314869" border="0" data-scale="79" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0e7a2f6ed8cd3e0a3b59b5a369ac1d5b9aac800a607e3e50dbd1e456eca0976b/Grotova-debris-performance.jpg" /> Debris on A Luminous Plain, performance Centrala, 2019 A few years ago I came across a 1970s herbarium on a Russian online noticeboard. Driven by an unclear instinct I asked my mother to buy it. Afterwards she reported that the seller was a middle-aged man who came in a car covered in patriotic stickers: ‘To Berlin!’ and ‘We’ll bend you over’. His wife was a schoolteacher, he said, she found the herbariums discarded in the school storage.It was an easy way to make a buck; his car was an old Zhigul. I picked up the artefact next time I came to Russia: two massive boxes with hundreds of sheets of dried plants. The herbarium was a study material distributed widely in Soviet schools to educate the children about USSR’s vast territories: from the newly adjoined Asian republics to Siberia and Caucasus. Each plant had a name a naïve illustration next to it showing the scene from the place where it had been collected: a woman harvesting grapes in Crimea, a man walking the donkey in one of the East Asian countries. One of the herbarium’s chapters was about the Kazakh steppe. It had some weeds whose names I heard from my grandmother: sagebrush, feather brush. The illustration showed a smiling man in a wide-brimmed straw hat with the yolk-yellow deserted landscape in the background.<img width="1011" height="1348" width_o="1011" height_o="1348" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5837959fe994d1193ab2ebb1a0f722a21e7ddb65e996c385444c33d47d42bbc7/0-3.jpg" data-mid="153552126" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5837959fe994d1193ab2ebb1a0f722a21e7ddb65e996c385444c33d47d42bbc7/0-3.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e5c88f609f71376d6d751d210eb8dc83d6892b0a97de51ff5a20e295d6dc13d9/IMG_9097.JPG" data-mid="153552099" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e5c88f609f71376d6d751d210eb8dc83d6892b0a97de51ff5a20e295d6dc13d9/IMG_9097.JPG" /> The Debris paintings are made with the traces of the Kazakh steppe plants: a laborious mark-making process that I developed to replace my agency with that of the non-human witnesses. Each painting is an exercise in accumulating absences, &nbsp;layering them one after another to contain a narrative within silences. https://olgagrotova.com/Friendship-Garden Wed, 21 Sep 2022 14:22:12 +0000 Olga Grotova https://olgagrotova.com/Friendship-Garden The Friendship Garden Garage Museum of Contemporary Art2021 <img width="1200" height="1600" width_o="1200" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/52d64651f6596ffa0bd5320cddd5ef20c74bb85d9c3c27977120dfea3b55bd34/large_file-1eea573c-b126-46e9-a701-4bd599e41d29.jpeg" data-mid="153556559" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/52d64651f6596ffa0bd5320cddd5ef20c74bb85d9c3c27977120dfea3b55bd34/large_file-1eea573c-b126-46e9-a701-4bd599e41d29.jpeg" /> <img width="884" height="1180" width_o="884" height_o="1180" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f1942936b947612e55b4c828d9a9776f89cde30b09c04fe3ff1c4daa5da23916/large_file-bd2771c4-9006-4e89-8265-820a7f73ef33.jpeg" data-mid="153556565" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/884/i/f1942936b947612e55b4c828d9a9776f89cde30b09c04fe3ff1c4daa5da23916/large_file-bd2771c4-9006-4e89-8265-820a7f73ef33.jpeg" /> <img width="1200" height="1600" width_o="1200" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c4bc06921b93c11c44711e406c3dd875fcef1c53c2a553b49f99ca0d536f6f87/large_file-7f335e43-f3e7-4cc5-b9e1-6e75ca7f1cfe.jpeg" data-mid="153556555" border="0" data-scale="54" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c4bc06921b93c11c44711e406c3dd875fcef1c53c2a553b49f99ca0d536f6f87/large_file-7f335e43-f3e7-4cc5-b9e1-6e75ca7f1cfe.jpeg" /> <img width="1200" height="1600" width_o="1200" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/80243bad850f8bd2addf9a61f4715f9a8fced07ba3e612d464523680d8022aa7/large_file-63dfe648-4567-46ff-b63b-abd3afe631f7.jpeg" data-mid="153556550" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/80243bad850f8bd2addf9a61f4715f9a8fced07ba3e612d464523680d8022aa7/large_file-63dfe648-4567-46ff-b63b-abd3afe631f7.jpeg" /> The Friendship Garden is a project initiated as part of the Field Research. By championing strategies of resistance and bringing to light the places, events, and people often neglected by or recouped from dominant histories, the Field Research challenges the leading positions of dominant agents of knowledge, liberating knowledge from belonging to one discipline, one culture or one narrative, and breaks free from the prevailing impermeability of academic and archival institutions in the post-Soviet spaces.&nbsp; <img width="938" height="704" width_o="938" height_o="704" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fa2492ab6f5a62485428c75a381ffd6518fc77fde841d680ef5d5de77b8f90d0/large_file-c334147b-88b7-4fc2-b9ac-c557d1841601.jpeg" data-mid="153556564" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/938/i/fa2492ab6f5a62485428c75a381ffd6518fc77fde841d680ef5d5de77b8f90d0/large_file-c334147b-88b7-4fc2-b9ac-c557d1841601.jpeg" /> The Friendship Garden investigates the land cultivation practices of Soviet women and their role in female self-expression, creativity, and independence. Home-grown food provided the promise of autonomy in the authoritarian state, and gardens and allotments fostered intricate support structures that connected neighbors, scarce tools, labor, and produce. Like many other female practices of the Soviet era, gardening has been largely overlooked and has escaped artistic enquiry. The research opens up complex discussions around the state, the body, womanhood, the female connection to land, and friendship as an alternative economic force. The starting point for the project is the history of Friendship, an allotment garden cooperative where Grotova’s great-grandmother Klavdia and her daughter Marina, the artist’s grandmother, had a plot for three decades starting from the 1960s, in the aftermath of their return from ALZHIR-Akmolinsk Camp for Wives of Traitors to the Motherland. Friendship was situated in the Urals, bordering the vast forest that camouflaged a myriad of nuclear research towns. The garden’s timeline ran parallel to the Cold War but existed outside official history, instead being in sync with the lunar cycles, plants, and lives of the female gardeners. The allotment garden was set up with the help of other women formerly imprisoned in ALZHIR and became a site where their trauma could be processed and their new-found freedom made sense of through engagement with the earth. Since the garden also served as the main source of food, the wellbeing of the family and all the neighbors depended on collaboration and, quite literally, friendship. The project delves into personal history and uses it as a prompt to imagine alternative economic systems based on friendship, cooperation, and care. In 2021 Grotova visited women’s gardens that have been overlooked or erased from public memory. They are scattered from Yakutia and Kazakhstan to western Russia and Ukraine, each presenting a unique story and an empowering vision of perseverance and resistance. Grotova is interested in re-actualizing the gardens’ lost histories and unraveling power’s relationship to memory and the politics of forgetting. Through her research and artistic work, the artist hopes to re-situate the grandmothers’ knowledge in the world. https://olgagrotova.com/Waters Wed, 07 Sep 2022 15:13:59 +0000 Olga Grotova https://olgagrotova.com/Waters The Waters of the Volga Oslo Kunstforening2019 <img width="3665" height="2443" width_o="3665" height_o="2443" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fe102e9ca208b1c582bdf62dfbebdebf32863edfd03689f5e86d0521ef0152fd/The-path1.jpg" data-mid="152914940" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fe102e9ca208b1c582bdf62dfbebdebf32863edfd03689f5e86d0521ef0152fd/The-path1.jpg" /> <img width="2688" height="4032" width_o="2688" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/08171e9172fb1bde1c2f1f36bff641bad92230419082e40eb2d2cffab0edfd27/The-path3.jpg" data-mid="152914925" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/08171e9172fb1bde1c2f1f36bff641bad92230419082e40eb2d2cffab0edfd27/The-path3.jpg" /> <img width="2477" height="3716" width_o="2477" height_o="3716" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/04a9eb2b314fc0b1ad24b8d85c756701500caa875a67308c944a6f8a3c5e12d3/The-path5.jpg" data-mid="152914998" border="0" data-scale="59" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/04a9eb2b314fc0b1ad24b8d85c756701500caa875a67308c944a6f8a3c5e12d3/The-path5.jpg" /> <img width="2992" height="1994" width_o="2992" height_o="1994" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7b51409bd0f69da1cc870d50fe0bb9aa435c95a436fd4396fdfdea0a18cebd93/The-path2.jpg" data-mid="152914942" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7b51409bd0f69da1cc870d50fe0bb9aa435c95a436fd4396fdfdea0a18cebd93/The-path2.jpg" /> The project is based on my poem about a trip to the Volga River, my great grandmother’s birthplace. Performed in collaboration with Syowia Kyambi at the Oslo Kunstforening. The series of drawings is made with river waters, debris and graphite. <img width="1334" height="750" width_o="1334" height_o="750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4ef5f9302c6c2f93f0687f62ed5cbaf3c5cc21956c25e85f4b3b1706268bfdfd/reading.jpg" data-mid="152914944" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4ef5f9302c6c2f93f0687f62ed5cbaf3c5cc21956c25e85f4b3b1706268bfdfd/reading.jpg" /> https://olgagrotova.com/Mimosa-House Wed, 14 Sep 2022 10:00:08 +0000 Olga Grotova https://olgagrotova.com/Mimosa-House XVII. The Age of Nymphs Mimosa House, London2018 <img width="2226" height="1484" width_o="2226" height_o="1484" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a4a39c0d05e6c09c3bb9413bebff99ca39496e30625004587a86d261f330110d/ice-rink-still3.jpg" data-mid="152916242" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a4a39c0d05e6c09c3bb9413bebff99ca39496e30625004587a86d261f330110d/ice-rink-still3.jpg" /> &nbsp; XVII. The Age of Nymphs explores human and insect affects and the archaeology of trauma. The exhibition looks to cycles of history and the possibility of reanimating time through repetition and doubling. Confronting the stagnation of the current times, the artists test posthuman gestures and insect behaviours as a challenge to human politics. Curated by Daria Khan <img width="1200" height="801" width_o="1200" height_o="801" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/53ec8bb4f5395a3de2bbb25748479b42103ae5c118c9b56bbb19444884f366f4/_DSC7329LR.jpg" data-mid="152916636" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/53ec8bb4f5395a3de2bbb25748479b42103ae5c118c9b56bbb19444884f366f4/_DSC7329LR.jpg" /> The First Reading, performace Mimosa House, 2018 Performance, discussion and video in which 4 performers or readers enact Le Livre, Stéphane Mallarmé’s unpublished magnum opus over three operations. The event is split between the two rooms, which are located one on top of the other. The board game takes place in the room upstairs where the viewers are invited to record the players with a camera that produces a live feed on the screen in the room below. The audience can thus observe the Reading either on the screen or in person, but can never access both at the same time. <img width="3430" height="5145" width_o="3430" height_o="5145" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/75968d026beda3441ed85b8d1e10a09bcfabc0cf454a639ab4b1f7479c817a6c/First-reading-1.jpg" data-mid="152916879" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/75968d026beda3441ed85b8d1e10a09bcfabc0cf454a639ab4b1f7479c817a6c/First-reading-1.jpg" /> <img width="2169" height="1446" width_o="2169" height_o="1446" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/837a10791e0c093d60d251d164581967f1aac605021364e6232690bcb959a29f/First-Reading--Mimosa-House-2018.jpg" data-mid="152917209" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/837a10791e0c093d60d251d164581967f1aac605021364e6232690bcb959a29f/First-Reading--Mimosa-House-2018.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="1600" width_o="1200" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/043c209a321b93eecf3f13e4b81f05c74723155d3892d681c32454bfb5562d5e/tumblr_p56peypcFv1x7q297o4_1280.jpg" data-mid="152916891" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/043c209a321b93eecf3f13e4b81f05c74723155d3892d681c32454bfb5562d5e/tumblr_p56peypcFv1x7q297o4_1280.jpg" /> <img width="1280" height="1707" width_o="1280" height_o="1707" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d41934f327491c5062576fc012fbb26382334abcd7815a924dfd4e86a7b6cbca/tumblr_p56pbj0Q0d1x7q297o7_1280.jpg" data-mid="152917113" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d41934f327491c5062576fc012fbb26382334abcd7815a924dfd4e86a7b6cbca/tumblr_p56pbj0Q0d1x7q297o7_1280.jpg" />