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
Vampalaš

2024
The film "Vampalaš" is dedicated to the Nart epic, which is based on tales of the origin and adventures of heroes-great heroes (Narts) and is widespread among a number of peoples of the North Caucasus. Occupying a prominent place in Ingush culture, it is closely connected with various Ingush surnames and societies linking their origins with the Nart heroes. After the adoption of Islam, the Narts lost their divine significance, but tales and legends about them have been preserved forever in the people's memory.

The video essay conveys the state of mind captured during the expedition to Ingushetia. The giants have "gone into montage", the past is lost in a new religion. The flow of time carries the tales into oblivion, leaving only scraps of phrases and information that have settled in the locals.

History of the project:
– June 20, 2024 – experimental documentary film screening at the bar “Ladno” (Moscow, Russia)

– Online exhibition Mémento (https://www.aedrafinearts.com/)

– December, 2024 – Videoart Exhibition “Looking at the Moon” (Vinzavod, Moscow, Russia)

– Publication in Horizon Magazine (https://thehorizonmagazine.com/Issue_08_-_August_2025.pdf)