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 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)