OLGA GROTOVA
b. 1986, RussiaOlga Grotova (b. 1986, Chelyabinsk) is an artist and poet living and working in London and Paris. Her practice involves collecting and mapping stories of Soviet and Eastern-European women that have been erased from established historical narratives. Grotova undertakes research journeys to discover the lost histories of communities and families from former Soviet states in order to dispel male dominated and power-centric ‘official’ narratives. Her practice is a feminist interruption into the Russian political narrative plagued by extraction, patriarchy and imperialism. The erased her-stories create fractures and inconsistencies in the official history and undermine the regime built on terror, misogyny and militarisation.
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