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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PHOGRAPHY / VIDEO SU(n)
2023
The title of the movie comes from the physical theory of Grand Unification. It is argued that at extremely high energies, elementary particles begin to unite. SU(n) is the formula used to denote such reactions.
The plot of the movie is based on the relationship between a scientist and a sea cucumber. The scientist meets the sea cucumber. They become friends and go through the whole path of relationship: from subordination of one to the other to total fusion.
The concept of the movie is to show the failure of the Anthropocene and human existence detached from nature. In the work I aimed to demonstrate the symbiosis of all living things through the example of the Malassezia disease and the human-animal alliance.
The voice-over text is my essay in which I reflect on the experience of Malassezia disease, which results in yeast fungi on the body. The essay describes not only the factual component of the disease, but also presents my musings on what it is like to coexist with another organism.
History of the project:
– July 9, 2023 – participation in the gallery exhibition “Bomba” (CTI Fabrika, Moscow, Russia)
– September 2023 – participation in the exhibition “Exhibition without curators” (Sevkabel Port, St.Petersburg, Russia)
– September 2023 – participation in the online exhibition “Particles” (Tbilisi, Georgia)
– April 2024 – participation in artist-talk “Sad girls times” (CTI Fabrika, Moscow, Russia)
– May 2024 – participation in the YouthCore Festival (Belgrad, Serbia)
– Decembre 13, 2024 – Festival Mladih Umjetnika (Belgrad, Serbia)