Born in Switzerland. Jokhova has lived in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia, Austria and Estonia. At present, Jokhova lives and works between London and Tallinn.
Evy Jokhova is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice is rooted in the dialogue between social anthropology, architecture, philosophy and art. Working with sculpture, installation, drawing, film, performance and painting on a project-by-project basis, she investigates the invention of tradition, the creation of social systems and how social behaviour can be altered through architectural construction, with reference to the post-Cartesian ontological question of being in space (M. Heidegger, J-L. Nancy, Ian James, M. Foucault) and the relationship between building, body and mind (Bertrand Russell, Bill Hillier, Vitruvius). Her projects are often supported by travel, research, anthropological fieldwork and interviews.
Interview with Evy Jokhova, Dina Varpahovsky, Assemblage, 2018
Evy Jokhova, ‘Towering in the condition of fragments’, This is Tomorrow, 2017
Interview by Hugo Barclay & Emma Mowat, ‘Evy Jokhova’, Art Thou, London, September 2017