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EHALE

Darya Cherkashina — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 12:50:27 +0000

An endless state of searching — feeling out the next step that should bring peace and reveal a way out. A constant quest for support, where with every movement you find yourself in the same place — a point of confusion… and of presence.

Dance artist is Alyona Ageeva

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Conifers

Darya Cherkashina — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 12:47:31 +0000

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They’re all dead

Darya Cherkashina — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 11:25:45 +0000

The project aims to focus on the contrast between physical and the digital photographic media. It explores how our relationship with images has been transformed since they became ubiquitous, volatile and temporary, and were no longer experienced as physical entities. Millions of photographs are generated every day as a means of mass communication but these photographs are disposable and almost immediately out of date, while we drown in an ocean of images.

Using animation and video postproduction enables me to develop a space-time discourse and brings the photographs back to a specific moment in the present. The aesthetic discourse centres on the physical attributes and organic nature of the support; this is why the effects of time on the degradation, disappearance and transformation of matter are articulated through metaphors, and visual and poetic games.

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In Due Course In Your House

Darya Cherkashina — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 12:15:44 +0000

In Due Course In Your House is an atmospheric audiovisual poem, a parable of finding a home. The protagonists are two birds who fell from the sky and turned into people. Lost in the new world, they try to find their homeland, a place to give birth and die. On this journey they meet a hermit, a wolf and a shepherd who give them wise guidance. This film is created in response to the instability of the world shaken by wars, diseases, and natural disasters. These changes occur faster than we can adapt to them. They produce a disorienting effect and make us requestion our roots and our destination. In Due Course in Your House is a story of migration, which the author comprehends not only as movement from one country to another, but also as an inner resettlement, a relocation of thoughts and ideas.

Komiagina Polina.In Due Course In Your House

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Winter is leaving

Darya Cherkashina — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 11:37:31 +0000

This is an artist’s contemplation about her roots, the land she was born on, the ethnic group she belongs to, the environment and culture in which she grew up, and which shaped her. In her performance, she recreates an ancient Slavic ritual of bidding farewell to Winter and burning a Winter effigy on a bonfire, along with old unnecessary items and remnants of the past. It represents a parting with the past, experiencing a catharsis, purification, and transitioning into a new state.

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Flight

Darya Cherkashina — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 19:05:31 +0000

The heroine floats above the bed like Sleeping Beauty, her surreal and hallucinogenic dream world materializing in a lethargic sleep, transforming her into a fairytale character. The created world is a world of dreams drawn from children’s fairy tales, pop culture, as well as ideas taken from numerous wish fulfillment and visualization programs. Escapism becomes an attempt to escape from the frustration caused by perfectionism and high expectations of life, a persistent desire to merge with one’s own fantasies and mirages. The audio track reproduces a fragment from a film about Elizabeth II, whose words the heroine tries on herself: “She never worked, never washed dishes, never cooked food, never dusted… She doesn’t know the value of money.”

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Totem

Darya Cherkashina — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 11:52:39 +0000

This is a video about a trip to the mythical Hyperborea, which creates the feeling that such a country for tourist trips really exists and such sculptures stand there in reality, like ancient artifacts. Imitation of videos that tourists usually post online after visiting real countries, photographing sights.

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Forest

Darya Cherkashina — Thu, 14 Dec 2017 13:28:04 +0000

After a TV set suddenly breaks down, a forest substitutes. Referencing philosopher Ersumra Balteseruz’s only book – space is explored as a concept, an artificial facade to a reality we cannot comprehend.

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Group Portrait of Loneliness

Darya Cherkashina — Sun, 09 Jul 2017 22:11:54 +0000

This movie marks the understanding of cinema as an extra-human effort and finds cinema beyond the human, somewhere on the territory of its non-existence. The movie was shot on 16mm film in the 1990s and rendered for DVD in the 2000s.

Video stills:

Group Portrait of Loneliness

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