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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Spring Cannot Be Cancelled

2025
Spring Cannot Be Cancelled — an exhibition by the non-profit platform Projet Betula exploring transformation and inevitable change. The title refers to Spring Cannot Be Cancelled: David Hockney in Normandy, where the artist observes spring breaking through the greyness of winter — a metaphor for renewal.

The curatorial framework draws on the Two Loop System of social change: while one order rises, peaks, and declines, another quietly emerges, grows stronger, and eventually takes its place. This resonates with Donna Haraway’s compost theory — the idea that new worlds are born out of the remnants of the old.

Six participating artists reflect on this fragile balance through diverse practices, addressing themes such as:
  • protest as a living imprint on urban space;
  • trees as carriers of memory;
  • the external gaze shaping and liberating the female body;
  • identity as layered and imperfect;
  • parental heritage reinterpreted through material language;
  • human skin as a metaphor for continuous renewal.

Spring Cannot Be Cancelled creates a space for reflection on what is emerging today — unstable yet resilient structures that embody both fragility and resistance, opening questions rather than definitive answers.

Galerie Friches Et Nous la Paix (16 Rue Denoyez, 75020 Paris)
20-30 March, 2025

Exhibition website https://www.projetbetula.com/spring-cannot-be-cancelled