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 

New Seasons

2022
In Diaghilev's ballets, the concept of muscularity was blurred as much as possible. Ballet dancers wore dresses, quietly painted and posed femininely. However, in the course of further history, all these rudiments of inner freedom and getting rid of gender roles were killed. Now, in the era of militarism and dictatorship, it was important to find this harmony, only just acquired and quickly lost at the beginning of the 20th century, and to understand how it could exist today. 

In styling, the task was to combine elements of the theatrical and conventionally feminine. The clothes had to consist of separate simple elements, which together would look like a costume for a play or ballet. It was also important to dilute the images with jewelry and other accentuating details. 

The clothes for the shoot were provided by I'MM brand.

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