I start from the position that writing is a deeply therapeutic practice. When I write, I feel my thoughts aligning themselves as if into strings that I can play, and my experiences becoming the bow. In the text, I find the expression of all other art forms: text as image, sculpture, play. In my work, I explore these expressions through constant experimentation: I work with the mediums of installation, radio plays, performance.
In writing I am interested in the transmission of physicality and corporeality, the translation of experiences into physical sensations through words. For example, in my installation “when i wake up, i see nightmares” (2025, Finland), the text on silk canvases is built precisely on the corporeality of hypnopompic hallucinations (state that occurs between sleep and awakening): I tracked and relived this feeling in the body through the text, from the moment of awakening to the moment of complete restoration of the boundary between the real and the imaginary. In addition, I am interested in how text can become a guide to the corporeal world at the level of movement. To this end, I work, in particular, with the form of scores. For the installation “searching for what matters” (2022, Estonia), I developed a script for navigating the gallery space, and the publication “performing inscribed trajectories: a play in walks” (2022, Estonia) consists of three scripts for walking around the city.
In working with text, I constantly navigate between its singularity (personal, intimate experiences in an equally intimate expression, always limited by a specific language and mode of perception: listening or reading) and universality (phenomenology of the text, semiotics, translation practices and the visual language of the text). At the same time, collective practices of reading and writing, co-creation, occupy an important place in my work. During 2021-2023, I co-curated the Kausaal project, a series of public events exploring experimental writing and reading. In addition, my regular writing practices are poetry, short prose, art criticism and I am currently working on my first novel.
Text is the core of my artistic practice, but I treat it as a mediator, a point of observation. To master the text is to walk through the swamps and forests that surround this point like a fortress tower, to climb it without any equipment, rubbing your skin off until it bleeds, losing your own nails in the stone, to finally find yourself on the observation deck, look back at the path you have traveled, and see where this tower is located.
In writing I am interested in the transmission of physicality and corporeality, the translation of experiences into physical sensations through words. For example, in my installation “when i wake up, i see nightmares” (2025, Finland), the text on silk canvases is built precisely on the corporeality of hypnopompic hallucinations (state that occurs between sleep and awakening): I tracked and relived this feeling in the body through the text, from the moment of awakening to the moment of complete restoration of the boundary between the real and the imaginary. In addition, I am interested in how text can become a guide to the corporeal world at the level of movement. To this end, I work, in particular, with the form of scores. For the installation “searching for what matters” (2022, Estonia), I developed a script for navigating the gallery space, and the publication “performing inscribed trajectories: a play in walks” (2022, Estonia) consists of three scripts for walking around the city.
In working with text, I constantly navigate between its singularity (personal, intimate experiences in an equally intimate expression, always limited by a specific language and mode of perception: listening or reading) and universality (phenomenology of the text, semiotics, translation practices and the visual language of the text). At the same time, collective practices of reading and writing, co-creation, occupy an important place in my work. During 2021-2023, I co-curated the Kausaal project, a series of public events exploring experimental writing and reading. In addition, my regular writing practices are poetry, short prose, art criticism and I am currently working on my first novel.
Text is the core of my artistic practice, but I treat it as a mediator, a point of observation. To master the text is to walk through the swamps and forests that surround this point like a fortress tower, to climb it without any equipment, rubbing your skin off until it bleeds, losing your own nails in the stone, to finally find yourself on the observation deck, look back at the path you have traveled, and see where this tower is located.
April 2025
Bohdana Korohod (b. 1997) lives and works in Paris, France. She holds an MA in Sound and Visual Technologies from the University of Tartu (Estonia) and a BA in Political Science from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Ukraine) and Leiden University (the Netherlands). Her work has been presented at festivals and exhibitions in Ukraine, Poland, Estonia, Belgium, Sweden, France, and Finland. She is an award winner of the In Between? – Image and Memory competition organized by the European Network Remembrance and Solidarity (2020).
