Olia Gorohova
Photo: Pernille Sandberg
Olia Gorohova is a visual artist, who lives and works in Oslo, and has joined Novooi as a featured artist for our exhibition Above and Below, a part of Oslo Open. Originally from Belarus, she graduated in 2013 with a BFA degree in ceramics from the Academy of Arts, Architecture & Design in Prague. In 2018 she got the MFA degree from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, program Medium and Material Based Art.
Olia Gorohova is an artist working mainly with the handicraft traditions of figurative porcelain, making sculptures that reflect different psychological aspects of an individual and society. She observes and explores the complexity and beauty inherent in the collisions of contrasting phenomena and concepts. Taking inspiration from deviations in what is predictable human behavior and appearance, she makes figurative compositions that illustrate the clash of internal conflict; of contradictory psychological mechanisms, the interaction of ordered structures against something chaotic. Gorohova treats working with ceramics as a need for labor and materiality, and as a means of escaping our hyper-technological and fast-paced digital world.
Listen to the sound portrait with Olia as part of the exhibition “Above and Below”:
Shop objects by Olia Gorohova
In this art series from Olia Gorohova - “Metanoia” ,- she turns to the subject of migration, to notions of otherness and foreignness, and the obstacles to being fully understood in an adopted place. Based on her own experience as an immigrant, she illustrate the complex process of adapting to a new environment and changing habits, while revealing the challenges that an unfamiliar society imposes on an individual.
Metanoia is an Ancient Greek word (μετάνοια) meaning "changing one's mind", in psychology it is the process of experiencing a psychotic "breakdown" and subsequent positive psychological re-building or "healing".
All photos of Metanoia: Aliona Pazdniakova
