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
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)