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Nadia's research focuses on photography as a manifestation of various cultural practices, including the study of vernacular photography as a collective archive of everyday life. For her it's an opportunity to consider the critical, technological and ideological structures that surround them. Emotional and empathetic interactions are essential.

 

Nadia (born in 1987 in Moscow, Russia) studied the MA in "Curatorial Practices in Contemporary Art" by Garage Museum and in FOTOGRAFIKA Academy of Documentary and Artistic Photography. Following her graduation she continues working in curatorial and artistic field of photography.

Projects

MEMORY OVERSATURATED/LANDSCAPE

2024

The work is based on the analysis

of smartphone screenshots borrowed

from more than 40 people. Diving into the undifferentiated digital archive of everyday life allows us to see the modern landscape of collective memory.

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Night Stable

2023

The work draws attention to the role of non-human agents and relationships between them, by witnessing the world of a night stable and its inhabitants. 

 

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Aren't you afraid of anything now?

2021

The project examines the gap between

the distant and the near, combining visual and textual. Project is created via observing residents and documenting conversations about death with people who have experienced losing a loved one.

 

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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2021 — an art project within the framework of the exhibition “Angels, Charlie and sofa curators”, based on the results of the laboratory of Arseny Zhilyaev (Garage Education Center, Moscow);

2022 — co-curated the exhibition ”Point 55.754630, 37.638530”, rethinking the practice of walking (GROUND Solyanka, Moscow). As part of the exhibition, she also organized a panel discussion “Peripheral Vision: the place of documentary photography in contemporary art.”;

2023 — co-curator of the exhibition “Dreamcatcher” about the local photographic practices of Valentin Zhigunov at the Contemporary Art Center “Radiance” (Apatity, Murmansk Oblast).