DARIA GNATCHENKO
Daria Gnatchenko (b. 2003) is a Paris-based artist and curator currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Ecology of Arts and Media at Université Paris 8. Her practice spans digital media — photography, video, 3D graphics — as well as exhibition-making and writing.
Daria’s work explores ecology, posthuman perspectives, and the “hacking” of habitual notions of the human in the world. Recent projects focus on the idea of connection and coexistence — between people, nature, technology, animals — and on states of fluidity in identity and gender. She often returns to the theme of loneliness, not only as a painful condition but also as a fundamental and even generative aspect of human existence.
Her recent research examines installations that incorporate earth as a medium and the concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk, using these approaches to envision posthumanist worlds and reflect on the temporalities of catastrophe and the end of the Anthropocene.
Her method combines research and visual experimentation, weaving personal experience into contemporary philosophical and cultural discourses. Through this approach, Daria seeks to create spaces where fragile yet resilient forms of life and thought can emerge.
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CURATORIAL PROJECTS
ART WORKS
PHOGRAPHY / VIDEO
Qui chante dans les bois
The Qui chante dans les bois zine features photos from a trip to northern Normandy, capturing nature's mystery through winding trees, fog, and dense shrubbery. Using black-and-white inversion and reflective framing, it is aimed to evoke this hidden enigma. The title, drawn from a Victor Hugo poem, honors nature's mystery and self-sufficiency.
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Amauros
"Amauros," Latin for absolute blindness, is the title of this zine featuring photos from my father's aging camera. As it deteriorated, images became increasingly blurred, eventually turning into mere color patches.
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Vampalaš
The movie "Vampalaš" is based on the Nart epic, the cultural heritage of the peoples of the North Caucasus.
The video essay reflects the condition observed during an expedition to Ingushetia, where the past and Nart tales are fading into oblivion.
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Muscae volitantes
This video essay explores what happens in my country house when I am away, using footage from CCTV cameras. An important theme of the work is falling asleep and singing a lullaby.
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Fungi speculum
The project depicts fungi as symbiotic organisms adapting to different environments, including interactions with fullerene, a substance used in science and cosmetology. This empha-
sizes the theory of the “rope” structure of the world order, where the natural coexists with the
technological.
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SU(n)
A short film about the symbiosis of living organisms using the union of Scientist and Sea Cucumber as an example.
The work illustrates Donna Haraway's theory of the end of the Anthropocene and the physical Theory of the Great Unification.
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Cryonics
The work is based on research into the functions of memory and its ‘freezing’. Using natural sounds, the project aims
to recreate the atmosphere of a summer garden and revive
auditory memories.
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Radula
The Radula collection was created with the idea of imagining what tools non-anthropomorphic animals, such as mollusks, might use to eat. Each object in the collection echoed the motif of the radula, a structure within mollusks that helps them pulverize and scrape food.
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Pistache
The project is about growing up in the countryside and working with fears. I place in the sand
garden plants that frightened me as a child, and give the viewer the chance to interact with
them in order to overcome fears and process past experiences together.
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A place of residual image
The project is about the subtlety and shakiness of memory.
Using a neural network and scraps of memories, I am trying
to recreate an image of a house in Italy where I spent summer vacations as a child.
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Somer
Narrative video art about the birth, life and oblivion of Androgynus, as well as about the invisible hand of power that
decides his fate.
The work is inspired by Plato’s dialog “The Feast” and Benedict Livshitz’s poem “Androgynus”.
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Lumberjack
Artistic dialog with Yevgeny Yufit’s film “Lumberjack”, shot in 1985.
The plotless political satire with senseless fights and squabbles I interpreted for today and
modern Russia.
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New Seasons
Photo series are about the search for inner freedom inherent in the early 20th century and
Sergei Diaghilev’s Russian Seasons, and about the balance between feminine and masculine, organically and simultanously existing in man.
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Deserted
A video inspired by an Alt-j song
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