DARIA GNATCHENKO
Daria Gnatchenko (2003) works in Paris. Her major is Contemporary Art (Université Paris 8). Daria works most of all with digital media (photography, video and 3D-graphics). In her works she is interested in themes of ecology, connecting with nature and “hacking” the habitual determination of man in the world. In recent works, this is expressed in the cross-cutting theme of “uniting” any two phenomena: people, nature, animals, etc.

Daria’s practice employs themes of harmonious coexistence of different things in a person (for example, issues of genderfluidity or the search for one’s identity). Daria unites all these aspects with the theme of loneliness, which is not only seen as something painful, but as a natural state of human beings in which they need to learn to exist. Daria’s method of working is to dive deeply into the theme and conduct a research, on which she later strings the visual component of the works. The aim of Daria’s projects is to rework ideas and current trends in philosophy and culture and to implant her personal experience into them. 

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PHOGRAPHY / VIDEO 
Fungi Speculum

2024
 The mushroom as an image of a symbiotic living organism, as well as the hero of the legend about the origin of the name of the city of Chernogolovka is exhibited in different hypostases - in its habitat, neighboring a military training ground, and in the artificial conditions of a laboratory box. The mushrooms look at each other through a "crooked mirror" and show nature's ability to adapt to any scientific, political and social changes.

The mushroom in the glass box is pumped fullerene [1], a chemical that stimulates abundant growth 
and is used in scientific research, cosmetics. 
and pharmacology. Thus, the fungus and the human being 
at the same evolutionary level and can consume the same substances for development. Also fullerene, a substance to sustain and enhance life, is contrasted with the sounds of explosions from the video, which, on the contrary, create chaos. 

What unites all the elements of the work is the theory of the "rope" structure of the world order, where killing neighbors with enlivening, 
and the natural with the technological and anthropocentric.

The project was created in collaboration with the Functional Organic and Hybrid Materials Laboratory Complex and with scientists Olga Kraeva and Alexander Zhilenkov.
Alexander Zhilenkov. 

[1] - Fullerenes, an independent allotropic modification of carbon on a par with graphite, diamond and others. They were discovered in 1986.
The work was carried out as part of a science-art residency in Chernogolovka.

History of the project:
– May-June 2024 – partitipation "Research Institute for Collaborative Art Practices" (Art space “Voskhod”, Chernogolovka, Russia)



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