Amy Kaluzhny creates immersive environments where visual art and movement coexist in dialogue. Influenced by the energy and theatricality of London’s musical theatre and dance scenes, she integrates projections with painted, photographic, and sculptural elements to build spaces that respond and shift with the presence of the body. Her work embraces the fluidity of movement, using technology to amplify its rhythms and gestures, transforming dance into a living language that conveys emotion, strength, and vulnerability beyond traditional narrative.
Her practice is grounded in contemporary feminist thought, particularly lipstick feminism, which reclaims traditionally feminine aesthetics often dismissed as superficial, transforming them into powerful sites of strength and resistance. She explores contradictions of grace and grit, control and release, creating spaces where personal and collective experiences of empowerment and connection intertwine.
Central to Amy’s work is the exploration of inhabiting and reclaiming the female body—constantly watched, judged, and in flux. She investigates the tension between performance and reality and how these experiences shape identity and agency over time. She draws on Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s writings on embodiment, viewing the body as a site of knowledge beyond language. Influences like Merce Cunningham and John Cage inform her interest in chance operations and collaboration within contemporary practice.
Amy’s work resists commercial packaging and quick consumption. Combining sound, video-projected movement, and sculpture, she creates immersive installations where each element relies on the others to carry meaning. These environments invite full bodily, emotional, and intellectual engagement, encouraging reflection and complexity rather than passive viewing.
