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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Fungi Speculum

2024
The mushroom as an image of a symbiotic living organism, as well as the hero of the legend about the origin of the name of the city of Chernogolovka is exhibited in different hypostases - in its habitat, neighboring a military training ground, and in the artificial conditions of a laboratory box. The mushrooms look at each other through a "crooked mirror" and show nature's ability to adapt to any scientific, political and social changes.

The mushroom in the glass box is pumped fullerene [1], a chemical that stimulates abundant growth 
and is used in scientific research, cosmetics. 
and pharmacology. Thus, the fungus and the human being 
at the same evolutionary level and can consume the same substances for development. Also fullerene, a substance to sustain and enhance life, is contrasted with the sounds of explosions from the video, which, on the contrary, create chaos. 

What unites all the elements of the work is the theory of the "rope" structure of the world order, where killing neighbors with enlivening, 
and the natural with the technological and anthropocentric.

The project was created in collaboration with the Functional Organic and Hybrid Materials Laboratory Complex and with scientists Olga Kraeva and Alexander Zhilenkov.
Alexander Zhilenkov. 

[1] - Fullerenes, an independent allotropic modification of carbon on a par with graphite, diamond and others. They were discovered in 1986.
The work was carried out as part of a science-art residency in Chernogolovka.

History of the project:
– May-June 2024 – partitipation "Research Institute for Collaborative Art Practices" (Art space “Voskhod”, Chernogolovka, Russia)

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