The Factory of Found Clothing (Gluklya and Tsaplya), also known as FNO, is a group that was founded in 1996 by two Petersburg artists, Natalia Persina-Yakimanskaya (Gluklya) and Olga Egorova (Tsaplya). The group’s work examines the gender problematic in various media such as performances, environmental works, installations, films and various forms of collective work (seminars, lectures, workshops, etc.) Gluklya and Tsaplya are members of the workgroup Chto delat/What is to be done? Our project began as a seminar with five girls, at which we discussed key words from a quote of the Brazilian educator Paolo Freire. The seminar resulted in a video and a collection of clothes dedicated to these phrases. The clothes were made by the girls, as in the basic principle in most projects by the FNO Shop of Utopian Clothing. Gluklya was born in 1969 in Leningrad where she continues to live and work. She graduated from the Mukhina Academy of Art and Design in 1991. Tsaplya was born in 1968 in Khabarovsk. She attended The Repin Academy of Art in St. Petersburg where she continues to live and work.
