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Présentation de l'artiste

Daria Nazarova

Daria Nazarova (b. 1991, Russia) is a visual artist currently based in Tbilisi, Georgia. She works in various media, including photography, photo books, archival research.

She's interested in things outside the usual human perception, alternate worlds, closed communities. With artistic practice, she tries to capture the connection between generations, man and place, nature and human. Daria is concerned about our past and present experiences affecting the formation of our personality and the society as a whole.

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Artist statement

" I could still feel that optimism vibrating through the decades: that our bodies are full of power, and furthermore that their power is not despite but because of their manifest vulnerabilities."
Olivia Laing. «Everybody».


For a year and a half, I worked as a model in the sculpture workshop of the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts. The stillness of my body became a metaphor for my life, frozen at the moment Russia invaded Ukraine and my husband and I moved to Georgia.

In Georgian, Russian, and several other languages, the word "Natura" refers to a model posing for painters and sculptors. In Latin, it means nature. Students observed me, studied me, and sculpted me, perceiving my body as an object of learning. I documented the process and results of our work. By being entirely naked, I showed my openness—a desperate attempt to overcome the alienation of exile and draw closer to others.

My body is my only home. I will hide in it, as if in a shell, among the trees, mountains and caves, among the ancient places of a foreign country. Nature is what is inside me and what surrounds me, it brings peace and consolation. I am a nature frozen in time, a model for creating a sculpture, I am a sculpture myself. I feel connected to all living creatures, but at the same time I feel alone.

I’m trying to integrate into the new world without losing myself, my identity and roots. But who am I? I have character, I must be strong, I must rise up and start moving forward. But for now I look more like a person standing on the station platform while the train rushes past at great speed.

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