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
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)