DARIA NAZARENKO

performative installation in the frame of Empty Spaces Project – What are we living for? Curated by Mara Sporn

Two potential inhabitants of an empty house open questions about the future treatment of corporeality during a process of global isolation. Our mobile, digital society has been forced into domestication in 2020 by the pandemic circumstances. The question of a space in which we can move with ease and which routines determine our everyday life became essential.

Households started to reflect their existence and functionality unconsciously, driven by shaken certanties and global chain reactions. How we can open restricted spaces? In every living room there is usually a small wall cupboard with inherited dishes. There you will find a service of your parents, grandparents, great-grandparents.
Traditions are preserved like everyday routines. Crystal wine glasses stack into each other. But which side of the glasses is polished and which is dusty? The glass sculptures are placed in the old kitchen and in the salon. A solar eclipse is projected on the glass generations, so that in the course the light and the form break in the half glass. In this collaboration with dancer Kati Masami Menze, shadowy aspects of everyday routines deserve a stage.

all photos by Kai Werner Schmidt

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.