DARIA NAZARENKO

Searching In Amnesia is a performative laboratory for a dystopian model explored by the sheesh collective – Daria Nazarenko and Lou Le Forban

publication @nextmuseum

It is the narrative of two characters that survived a solar storm that erased all digital memories. Evolving in amnesia, they try to explore and understand the world. They encounter different abandoned objects to which they assign new functions. They create rituals. In this possible future, language has disappeared, therefore communication and understanding of reality are passing through the human body and light signals.

BIO

Daria Nazarenko (she/her) is a cinemato-choreographer
moving between film stills and subcultures.
Her works encompass multimedia video installations,
hybrid dance films,
and site-specific live performances.

By staging bodies and cameras,
she highlights the hidden dynamics of social life.
Her artistic practice was significantly influenced
by her travels to Senegal from 2021 to the present,
where she developed her non-western collective
approach through programs at "École des Sables"
integrating diverse cultural perspectives.

Her artistic practice includes curating
urban spaces into museum-like environments,
with happenings at the Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf,
as well as in Moscow the not-found-Gallery
and in Paris at the Beaux-Arts-Ateliers.
Her works have been showcased in institutions
such as PACT Zollverein,
K21 Düsseldorf, Sotheby's Cologne
and at tanzhaus nrw.
Through her interdisciplinary approach,
she enriches the contemporary art scene
and fosters dialogue about identity,
honoring her own migrational narrative.