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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ART WORKS

PHOGRAPHY / VIDEO 
Muscae volitantes


2024
This is a video essay about trying to understand what goes on in my country house when I'm not there. For this purpose, I use footage from CCTV cameras, with the help of which I try to "sneak" inside the house and see what is there. The house does not let me inside - the CCTV footage is gradually distorted, changing colors, overlapping, etc.

Falling asleep and singing a lullaby is an important theme in the work. With the help of video surveillance I want to trace the moment of the end of the day and what happens after nightfall.

This work was produced as part of the Desktop Video Essay Workshop at Garage Museum.

History of the project:
– October 11-13, 2024 – Festival of vulnerable video art (”Samizdat”, Saint Petersburg, Russia)

– November 8-10, 2024 – Independent film festival “Diapason. Cinema” (Saint Petersburg, Russia) 

– November-December, 2024 – Fubar Expo (Taipei, Taiwan)