Olga Grotova is an artist, poet and activist living and working in London. Her practice involves collecting and mapping stories of Soviet and Eastern-European women that have been erased from established historical narratives. Grotova undertakes research journeys to discover the lost histories of communities and families from former Soviet states in order to dispel male-dominated and power-centric ‘official’ narratives. Her practice is a feminist interruption into the Russian political narrative plagued by extraction, patriarchy and imperialism.

Griselda Pollock is Professor emerita of Social and Critical Histories of Art at the University of Leeds. For her work as a feminist art historian and cultural theorist she was awarded the Holberg Prize in 2020. Recent Publications: After-Image/After-Affect: Trauma and Aesthetic Transformation (2013), Charlotte Salomon in the Theatre of Memory (2018), edited with Max Silverman, Concentrationary Imaginaries: Tracing Totalitarian Violence on Popular Culture (2015), Concentrationary Art; Jean Cayrol, The Lazarean and the Everyday in Post-War Literature, Music and the Visual Arts (2019).

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