ABOUT Tereza Yakovyna
I am a visual artist and performer with a background in stage design.
I have expanded my practice beyond theatrical black-box productions to include participatory and community-based work. While I continue working with scenography, I approach it as a means of creating social situations. I invite community members into a scenographic experience where building scaled models, stages, costumes, and props becomes a way to uncover personal histories. These methods are part of my workshops and public performances, addressing migration, wartime trauma, and the “micro-history” of everyday life during political unrest. I often reinterpret classical theatre narratives—such as Oedipus or Orfeo and Eurydice—through the lenses of feminism and economic periphery.
Since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, I have responded to the increasing need for therapeutic group practices by incorporating guided meditation, collective singing, and movement into my participatory projects. Simultaneously, my sculpture practice reflects on the bodily experience of war and the reuse of materials for future rebuilding.
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