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
A place of residual image


2023
The name of the work comes from the term that denotes a special type of memory - eidetism. Eidetism allows to memorize only the remnants of visual information (its images).

The project is about the fragility of memory. Myself and the neural network are trying to reconstruct from scraps of information a portrait of a villa in Italy, where I spent my summer vacations as a child. However, because this house has been destroyed and rebuilt, we have to build an image only from tattered memories. 

This is a multi-channel video art:
- Video 1 is a walk through Google Maps as a way of reconstructing memory digitally. 

- Video 2 is a video of me molding a house out of sand. It's both a return to childhood summer memories, a physical attempt to reconstruct a house, and a metaphor for a memory that crumbles and falls apart as quickly as sand. 

- Video 3 is a video of a neural network generating a picture of a house from my memories. Neural network as a way to model memory using artificial intelligence. 

History of the project:
– July 12-14 2024 – participation in the exhibition “Neuroconflict” in the Superlative Gallery (Bali, Indonesia)