Embrace. Breathe. And release.
Chere Krakovsky is a New York-based visual and performance artist on a journey to weave together a sense of home and community in the world.
The Secretary
The Snowball Festival, New York, NY
After years of subservience to others, the secretary explores the deconstruction of her role in which every day is the same as the day before, and all the days to come. She waits for something, anything, to happen, but it never does. One morning she begins to unravel. She cuts the desk into pieces and rearranges everything, from desk and office supplies to sculpture, from office to studio. From madness, the pieces of the traditional become the tools for creativity. Once the sculpture is complete so is the performance.
The Feminine
The feminine was buried in the brushstroke, the weight of canvas, the agreement to be gender masculine and the whispers of the fathers who came before. Once the agreement was broken, the feminine emerged, in its power, shame and beauty. It was awkward, and messy. Sewing fabric, salvaging clothing. A smell, touch and memory each piece pulled from the everyday around me. Stitched, taped, veiled, bound with ribbons, string and thread, all repositioned through my feminine.
Beads
In Covid isolation the desire to make things, and the materials to make them, came from what housed me in my isolation—a bead, my hair, my body. Each bead has a unique interior life with infinite possibilities. A tiny bead becomes a universe, a complete painting, illuminated by its inner possibility.
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Hi, I’m Chere Krakovsky, a visual and performance artist based in New York.
