Katya Granova

Surgery Scene

Oil
Canvas
40 x 50 cm

£1,500

“This work is based on a found archive photograph of a surgery process. The photograph itself is very mysterious, as it’s not clear who is being operated on or who the other people are. It may be badly printed and is therefore very dark and unclear. I find it interesting to glimpse this lost past I know nothing about. By painting from old photographs, I symbolically put my body into someone’s documented past, intruding on it. I find the time scale an oppressive thing, as you cannot be even one second in the past or the future and are bound to be only in the now. Painting, as a bodily practice, becomes a symbolic effort to get out of it. The subject of surgery also corresponds with my intrusive, slightly violent and, in a way, surgical approach to painting.”