Ivana Larrosa · Expanded Cinema & Performance
Originally from Spain, based in Manhattan
Ivana’s practice brings together video, movement, sound, and natural elements in live expanded cinema performances that explore ecology, perception, and embodied experience. At Governors Island, she is developing Sphere, a performance and installation that weaves recordings of the island’s natural environment, birds, water, and wind, with projection, gesture, and sound. She will also offer guided field walks and hands-on workshops inviting participants to observe, listen, and contribute their own recordings and reflections to the work.
Katerina Sokolovskaya · Sculpture & Installation
Originally from Belarus, based in Brooklyn
Katerina works with plaster, clay, silicone, and mixed media to create sculptural installations exploring transformation, the body, and embodied memory. Her work traces the experience of migration as an internal process, using casting and imprinting to preserve traces of touch, pressure, and change. At Governors Island, she is developing a participatory installation that grows over time through visitor contributions, creating a collective sculptural work that reflects a range of personal stories and experiences.
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Patricia Colmenero · Painting & Film
Originally from Brazil, based in Brooklyn
Patricia works across painting and film to challenge the ways immigrant women, and Latina women in particular, are made visible. Her Counter Ethnography series draws on devotional imagery, melodrama, and historical portraiture to create paintings of opened bodies, stitched surfaces, and displaced hearts that resist reduction. Alongside this, she is developing The Exodus of Iara, a short film following a young immigrant woman who arrives in the United States in pursuit of artistic desire. At Governors Island, she is bringing painting and film into dialogue with the architecture of the house itself.
Yooyeon Nam · Painting
Originally from South Korea, based in Brooklyn
Yooyeon is an oil painter whose original characters, round-faced, expressive, and unsettling, explore the psychological landscape of migration, displacement, and outsider experience. Her work draws on Korean artistic traditions while engaging with the surreal and the absurd to capture what it feels like to navigate a new world. At Governors Island, she is developing The Alien Multitude, a monumental multi-figure painting exploring immigrant solidarity and collective resilience.