{"id":12239,"date":"2025-05-13T10:48:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T08:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/liap.eu\/?p=12239"},"modified":"2025-05-13T10:48:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T08:48:18","slug":"katya-granova-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/liap.eu\/index.php\/2025\/05\/13\/katya-granova-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Katya Granova"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Term: May &#8217;25 &#8211; July &#8217;25<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;My practice is structured around the existential experience of the national past and I employ the medium of painting to access it. I use found old photographs, which I enlarge and transfer onto canvas to paint over them, speculatively inserting my presence in the scenes they contain.<br>I&#8217;ve always found old, mundane photos of typical family life fascinating. 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