All Our Yesterdays
Artist: Katya Granova
Private View: Thursday 5th March, 6-9pm RSVP
Viewing Dates: Friday 6th March – Monday 9th March 2026, 10am - 6pm
Special Events:
Private View Performance: Thursday 5th March, 8 PM RSVP
The performance will be a 10 min dance, where Katya will be responding to a projected photograph on the wall and play music to accompany it.
Artist Tour: Saturday 7th March, 3pm RSVP
Finissage & Perfomance: March 9th, 6-9 PM, RSVP
Performance at 8 pm.
RSVP here: https://katya-granova.com/news/2026-All-Our-Yesterday
Event Details:
All Our Yesterdays presents a selection of new paintings by Katya Granova, accompanied by the artist's solo performance within the exhibition space. Granova's paintings begin with old photographs from anonymous family albums, state archives, and flea markets across different countries. Using energetic brushwork and vibrant colour, Granova responds to those moments from the unknown, unreachable past, disrupting and reanimating someone’s yesterdays, the fragile substance of someone else’s life.
“New yesterdays appear every day. Old yesterdays are stored in the dusty depot of unstable human memory, guarded by forces that can alter them. It sounds like repressive detention. It sounds like a bright new future. Yesterdays never return from the depot. Can I visit them?” - Katya Granova
For the first time in her practice, the artist will combine her paintings with a dance performance. The performance, grounded in the same bodily response to archival photographs as her paintings, takes this corporeal dialogue with time beyond the canvas. It will be shown twice: during the private view and at the finissage.
The phrase All Our Yesterdays, drawn from Macbeth, is also the title of a 1969 Star Trek episode exploring the perils of time travel. Granova's practice operates as a form of speculative time travel, driven by protest against forgetfulness, historical manipulation, the erasure of lived stories, and humanity's existential condition. This protest charges her intrusive painterly gestures, through which she inserts her bodily presence into the photographic scenes.
Curated by Róisín McQueirns.