All Our Yesterdays is a solo presentation of recent paintings by Katya Granova curated by Róisín McQueirns.
Granova's paintings are informed by found photographs sourced from family albums, government archives and flea markets. She responds with colour and brushwork to explore the tension between presence and absence on large-scale canvasses.
"New yesterdays appear every day. Old yesterdays are stored in the dusty depot of unstable human memory, guarded by forces that can alter them. It sounds like a repressive detention. It sounds like a bright new future. Yesterdays never return from the depot."
Born in the Soviet Union shortly before its collapse, Granova's formative years were defined by a constant shift in historical perspectives and contradictions in remembered realities. The subjects in her paintings remain anonymous, distinction between individual figures, foreground and background, deliberately blurred by the artist’s intervention.
With the title alluding to both Shakespeare's Macbeth and an episode of Star Trek, All Our Yesterdays challenges notions of linear time and the subjectivity of history.
Event Venue
The Handbag Factory - ASC | A home for creative minds | Coworking & Gallery Spaces in London, 3 Loughborough St, London SE11 5RB, United Kingdom, London
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