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Daria Fedorova
Daria Fedorova is a multidisciplinary artist, developoing a unique methodology of artistic cultivation of microorganisms. Using different supplements she combines microbiological practice with art phenomena. Grotesque, bizaare, romantic, ironic, hyperbolic, extraordinaire - just a few to describe what her works are.
Abstract
Art
Artistic cultivation
of
micro-
organisms
Sculpture
Video &
Photo
Art
About
Artist
For the conceptual side I see my works as a meta photograph of "Nothing", so I collect spores from the air, surroundings, personal items, pets, cars, subway, ash, church, body skin, antique items – and make them visible from the bio abstract side, contributing the power of invisible, unknown and the Big energy. But at the same time it's a collaboration with organisms ‒ I feed them with my canvas ‒ and they give new shades, tones and gradients with the help of their transporting and excretory systems.
Being in such an intimate and strong relations with the art matter, sometimes makes you the one with your creation
For the process I go to the kitchen and cook the nutrient (here I rethink the idea of gender and what is to be a woman artist, what if I do not want to cook a family meal, but gonna feed my artworks, and whisper them my love words, finally am I bad or good, am I still a woman?) There are a lot of different methods of making, like free seeding, when I can dance with the dish, or shout or cry, or just leave it for the air exposition, or use stencils and geometrical supplements, when want to control them (especially when it comes about logo growth for brands). Also the aspect of time as a medium is very noticeable, as I can not ask Nature to change life-cycles, which have been forming billions of years, I need to wait and to believe, as we all know that after the sunset it's always a sunrise :)
I want to undergo the idea of medium as the key point, because it affects the way how we explore art – it's immediately triggering your associations, experience, tastes, ego, as I believe that everything we see is a reflection of inside – so and art becomes a literal mirror, where we can see the truly us.
In some cases it's an AI, but natural, so the data is from me, result is from them, but under my supervision, because the only catalyst and decision maker in this collaboration is me and my perception, like when to take photographs or fix the result with epoxy? – so in this silence I meet the pure nature of chaos, chance and learn more about the Creator and Nature.
As for the identification of species (if it comes about my classical practice, where I'm interested in colours, texture relations and gradients), I do not want to categorise them, because imagine a conversation with a group of people, and your first question is – hey, what is your blood type, race, dark sides, preferences, no – you just enjoy the person itself, no matter what. Because we are all made out of one substance, is not it magnificent?!
So the process itself is very adrenaline-like, because I have a very limited period of time, before the nutrient hardens, around several minutes and I need to think about composition, layers, shades and accents. This is my type of emotional roller coaster, together with dopamine stimulating, as I always see new variants of growth, texture relations, patterns etc.
So I can describe it as when you feel the cooling ocean water in super hot summer, and you jump into the water from a giant cliff! and that fantastic and acute feeling in the first nano second – what I feel when I see my works at their final stage – and the whole process before – is like being exhausted and super sweaty, standing on that cliff, waiting for that discharge. Okay, it's my type of artistic and mental sex, playing with plateau, arguing, loving, shouting, agreeing, exploring, showing boundaries, learning, enjoying! I сan talk about this for ages!
Artist
Statement
Time
essential tools
is one of the
in
the hands of an artist co-creating with nature
Working
with material
which is
not so easy
to preserve
makes
you feel
the most
importance
of natural
processes
which you
can’t ever
replicate
Who own what: the artwork artist, or artist artwork?
tap and hold
Once the dish is dead, I definitely feel that I lost something, because I can’t be the figurative “owner”, it’s not mine creation anymore,
it belongs to time
Capturing
I do love that one of not many ways of capturing the growth is photography. Camera lenses becomes the last witness,the main executor, endowed with almost exclusive rights. And I am jealous that it’s not me.
The
growth
2015
2016
2017
2018
Round in the city, Moscow | Izmailovo Gallery

Science Bar Hopping, Moscow | lectures at Red October
Self-explanatory, Moscow | Polygraph space
City Festival of Artists, Saint-P | Floors

First kiss, Moscow | Red Center

May I not, Moscow | Space Flacon

Art of the Present, Moscow | Space Flacon

Greenhouse | Museum of Moscow, curatorial project

Veselaya Karusel, Moscow | gallery Here on Taganka

Shorties show, Moscow, BHSAD

Elements of Science | Pushchino
ALMALELEDA indoor exhibition

Foundation Final Show | Foundation course exhibition graduation
2015-2023
2019
2020
2021
2022
to be continued
Mycologica, OKK Raum, Berlin
"Osmosis", Electromuseum, Moscow

"Graphia", Innovative Cultural Center, Kaluga

"Graphia" Geological Museum of Vernadsky, Moscow

"Graphia" Guslitsa

Velvet Season 3, 811_loft, Moscow

New Art Festival “Safest”, Novosibirsk

Pass the Salt, Izmailovo Gallery, Moscow

Graphica, Moscow, Innovation Cultural Centre, Kaluga
Mushroom Festival, Moscow, Artistic microbiology overview lecture

Imitation of Paradise, Moscow, group exhibition

Air, Moscow, solo show
Strange Episode, St. Petersburg | Planetarium

Superbugs, Moscow | Timiryazev Museum

India design week, AsianPaints Festival, New Delhi

Philosophy of Canon, Moscow | Union of Artists
Exhibitions
Exhibitions
2015-2023
Media
Классная плесень: мифы и факты про микрогрибы
2021
@voguerussia
2021
«Я провела бактериальный анализ московских икон»
2017
На кого подписаться: Художница, создающая фантастические работы из плесени
2021
When mold is looking fabulous! The microorganism studies of Daria Fedorova
2021
Combining microbiological practice with art phenomena
2023
Küflerle ve Bakterilerle Yaratılan Rengarenk Kompozisyonlar
2021
A Microbiologia cheia de cores de Dasha Plesen
2021
NFT STARS to present Dasha Plesen Celebrity Drop featuring “Liquor btc.spinalis”
2022
DASHA PLESEN
2022
Отвратительная красота плесени
2022
You won’t believe that these psychedelic art pieces are actually close-ups of molds and fung!
2021
Красота плесени
2015
«Красивая плесень» в фотографии Даши Плесень
2022
Artist Dasha Plesen’s Mold + Bacteria Compositions Capture The Beauty of Decay
2021
Disgustingly Beautiful Mold Art
2021
Tainted with Manufactured Objects, Slime Molds and Spores Grow Into Unnaturally Striking Compositions
2021
Daria Plesen is Breaking the Mold
2021
Media
Классная плесень: мифы и факты про микрогрибы
2021
@voguerussia
2021
«Я провела бактериальный анализ московских икон»
2017
На кого подписаться: Художница, создающая фантастические работы из плесени
2021
When mold is looking fabulous! The microorganism studies of Daria Fedorova
2021
Combining microbiological practice with art phenomena
2023
Küflerle ve Bakterilerle Yaratılan Rengarenk Kompozisyonlar
2021
A Microbiologia cheia de cores de Dasha Plesen
2021
NFT STARS to present Dasha Plesen Celebrity Drop featuring “Liquor btc.spinalis”
2022
DASHA PLESEN
2022
Отвратительная красота плесени
2022
You won’t believe that these psychedelic art pieces are actually close-ups of molds and fung!
2021
Красота плесени
2015
«Красивая плесень» в фотографии Даши Плесень
2022
Artist Dasha Plesen’s Mold + Bacteria Compositions Capture The Beauty of Decay
2021
Disgustingly Beautiful Mold Art
2021
Tainted with Manufactured Objects, Slime Molds and Spores Grow Into Unnaturally Striking Compositions
2021
Daria Plesen is Breaking the Mold
2021