Katya Isaeva is a Moscow-based interdisciplinary artist and curator hailing from Karaganda. She works with a wide range of media from embroidery to animation and installation, often rearranging readymades to tell new stories. In her practice, Isaeva is interested in creating a personal mythology that goes beyond gallery spaces into social media, and employs all senses of perception, including tactile and audio elements into her works. Her works have been shown at exhibitions and biennials in Russia and beyond.
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From the Hunt of the Unicorn project, 2019-2020. In this series, the artist appropriates and transforms the famous 15th century tapestries into a comic strip of sorts
From the Hunt of the Unicorn project, 2019-2020. The lyrics are embroidered onto the tapestries by hand
From the Hunt of the Unicorn project, 2019-2020. The resulting work can be seen as a synesthetic concert with the popular songs in English and Russian
Impossible Herbarium, 2019-2021. The artist rearranges plants, creating new species in her scanograms
Impossible Herbarium, 2019-2021
Tales of Anthropocene. Here, Isaeva gathered a series of short stories on the coexistence of humans and nature. The recordings are available on her YouTube channel (in Russian). Photo: Ivan Novikov-Dvinsky
Morning Choir, 2018-2020. This installation featured archival recordings of extinct birds’ singing (courtesy of Cornell University)
