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The place of the artist is on the side of the weak.

“I derive my works from the notion of fragility – a strategy based on the practicing of art as a healing and emancipatory method, often embracing childhood traumas and ambivalent dilemmas. Dialogue for me is always important topic, helping to construct the situation for the work.“ – Gluklya

Gluklya’s performance and visual practice revolves around the manifesto, “The place of the artist is on the side of the weak.” She uses clothing, installations, performance, video, text and research to develop the concept of ‘fragility’ – a subject that is interpreted not in the sense of 'beauty,' but in that of ‘invisible strength.’ In her projects, she addresses the personal stories of her characters, analyzing them and revealing conflict between political systems and personal inner worlds. Her work explores topics of social exclusion, underestimation of intuitive knowledge, mind-body connections, violation of human rights and stereotypes of human behavior. Active since the mid-1990s in Russia – Gluklya co-founded the Factory of Found Clothes in St. Petersburg and was a founding member of Chto Delat (What is to be done?) – the artist now principally lives and works in Amsterdam.