Présentation de l'artiste

Dasha Koen

Dasha Koen is a Soviet born, currently based in Spain analogue photography artist and a poet. She have started her creative path as a cinematographer, with a bachelor degree in Audiovisual media. She is an author of a couple of shorts, one of them, called “Frequent Meetings” – a very slow black and white silent film, was acclaimed by several film festivals. Her art has always been slow and black and white. And modern audiovisual production world did not seem a place to be. She found her self in analogue photography and it’s alternative methods, like liquid emulsion. Her first personal exhibition “The art to disappear” will take place in November, in a civic centre Patti Llimona, Barcelona.

Artist statement

I have always been attracted to the ephemeral nature of things. With my art I explore the fragile territory of the evanescence. I am seeking to catch something that is not actually there – like a feeling of déjà vu. This tender and unexplainable moment of serenity. Small, but still a miracle. I do believe in miracles. I do believe in the daily magic of the Universal laws. I tend to play with these laws, creating my own private Universes. I try to make art that does not have a time label on. The other leitmotiv of my work is the study of the the feeling of not belonging, of being lost, being lonely, being too sensitive. I try to reconstruct those feeling into something meditative and warm. Slow black and white photography as a healing practice in a too fast modern world that we live in.