DARIA NAZARENKO

The title "Confluence" comes from the meteorological phenomenon when two streams merge into one. The variations of the work came two different biotopes in the interior space.

On the one hand there are the recordings from the regional floodplain of the Rhine river and on the other hand the Finnish polar landscape, which interrupt each other in the video channels.

In both constellations a model is developed in a showcase.

As a deconstructed diorama, "Confluence" plays with false perspectives and a reflection in the glass filter and the water mirror.

Here the spectator feels the reproduced images, while the original source continues disappearing.

As a deconstructed screen diorama "Confluence" is playing with false perspectives.
The spectator finds itself in a reflection of desirable landscapes. An arctic gaze awakes the nostalgia in times of global warming. – Installation at the Rundgang Kunstakademie Düsseldorf 2019

The work "Confluence" is a contemporary report. It starts in Lapland, where the threatened glacier landscape slowly disappears. Through the filming and surviving process, its portrait gets conserved. The construction of a landscape model continues in the exhibition space.

A cinematic diorama presses the vastness into a cramped space.

CONFLUENCE, Galerie Mazzoli, Daria Nazarenko 2020

second Installation at the Gallery Mazzoli Düsseldorf 2019

with generous support from SIGMA Audio Visual Systems Düsseldorf

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.