Katya Grokhovsky works in installation, performance, sculpture, fiber, video, photography, painting and drawing, exploring gender, identity, labor, body, history and the self. Through research, play, experimentation and autobiographical experience, Grokhovsky weaves the personal and political together, building worlds and personas, which examine stereotypes, prejudices and oppression, emphasizing the absurd and the uncanny in the everyday. Working with discarded and found objects and materials, ephemera, consumer goods, fabric, paint, plaster, paper, toys, wood, cement, metal, neon and archives as well as text, voice, ritual gestures, repetitive movement, dance, sound and collaborative social propositions and interventions, she investigates the narratives of migration and displacement, in relation to the preconceived social order. Many of her works deal with protest, the notions of failure and triumph, via radical and satirical actions: reclaiming the body through pleasure, chaos and refusal, residing in the space of the critical Capitalist grotesque, whilst occupying a 21C anarchic Dadaist Garage-Band Feminist Punk territory.
Her process and artistic language involve extensive archival, digital, and firsthand research, community, and partner outreach, writing and drawing practice leading to extensive studio experimentation with sculpture, video, fiber, and painting and working collaboratively with movement workers and sound artists. She investigate formation and de-construction of communal pain and is interested in creating platforms, to which other practitioners, partners and public can contribute, centering voices, often forgotten, silenced, marginalized, or excluded at the time of a global conflict epidemic, offering a restorative space. Katya aims to accomplish a broader awareness of historical amnesia and expose challenging issues pertaining to migration, history, collective trauma and the extremes of political regimes and ideologies. As an artist and a woman, with a familial history of tragedies, such as Ukrainian Genocide of 1930's Holodomor, Holocaust legacy and sexual abuse, she is invested in analyzing and learning about power dynamics and generational trauma, notions of freedom and democracy through personal and humane approach, to save our future and culture and live in a more inclusive, kind, and open world as an artist-citizen.