Katya Grokhovsky: FANTASYLAND at Smack Mellon
BROOKLYN, New York
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Artist Talk:Â April 18, 3â4:30 PM
Performance:Â May 1, 4 PM
Smack Mellon (Brooklyn, NY) is pleased to present
 Katya Grokhovskyâs new solo exhibition
 FANTASYLAND. Grokhovsky works in installation, performance, sculpture, video, painting and drawing, exploring ideas of gender, identity construction, alienation, labor, history, and the self. Through research and autobiographical experience, Grokhovsky builds worlds and characters that examine and underscore stereotypes, assumptions, prejudices, and injustices. She is interested in the histories of migration and displacement, while enacting the bodies of the historically oppressed, in relation to the preconceived social order. Many of her projects deal with protest and freedom through failure, via radical and humorous actions: reclaiming the body through pleasure, chaos, and refusal, residing