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
New Seasons



2022
In Diaghilev's ballets, the concept of muscularity was blurred as much as possible. Ballet dancers wore dresses, quietly painted and posed femininely. However, in the course of further history, all these rudiments of inner freedom and getting rid of gender roles were killed. Now, in the era of militarism and dictatorship, it was important to find this harmony, only just acquired and quickly lost at the beginning of the 20th century, and to understand how it could exist today. 

In styling, the task was to combine elements of the theatrical and conventionally feminine. The clothes had to consist of separate simple elements, which together would look like a costume for a play or ballet. It was also important to dilute the images with jewelry and other accentuating details. 

The clothes for the shoot were provided by I'MM brand.