Artwork information

Name
Untitled
Year
2021
Dimensions
34х45 cm
Provenance
The photographer's private archive
Catalog number
SVED-30
Inscription

On the verso side: inscription “Daria Svertilova” and the artist’s signature

Key words
condominiumwindow

About the artist

Untitled

Daria Svertilova (b. 1996, Odesa) is a Ukrainian artist. She graduated from École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs of Paris (M.A. in Photography & Video) in 2023. She was a member of the Join the Cool group (with Zhenia Volkov, Anastasiia Lazurenko, Christina Podobed) created in 2016. Daria is a finalist of the Palm* Photo Prize 2022.

One of the main subjects of Daria’s artistic experiments was youth, political and social contexts of their life. That is why the majority of her works are portraits of her generation. Lives in Kyiv and Paris.

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Photo credit — Keegan Keene.

Group exhibitions:

2018 — “Kuyalnik Love-Stories”, Museum of Odesa Modern Art, Odesa, Ukraine (curator — Alexandra Tryanova)

2018 — “The New East Photo Prize”, Calvert Gallery, London, UK

2019 — “Alien She”, as a part of Jour et Nuit Culture, Paris, France

2019 — “En cas d’urgence briser la glace”, Cité des Arts, Paris, France

2019 — “Raising the curtain”, Stelplaatz, Leuven, Belgium

2021 — “Чутливість / Sensitivity”, Mystetskyi Arsenal National Cultural and Art and Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine (curators — Maksym Gorbatskyi, Solomia Savchuk, Oleksandr Soloviov)

2021 — “Chromie photo-fair & group exhibition”, Le Consulat, Paris, France

2021 — screening during Odesa Photo Days Festival, Odesa, Ukraine (project “Temporary Homes”)

2021 — screening during Bristol Photo Festival, Bristol, UK (project “Temporary Homes”)

2022 — “Consequences. Art and Activism in the Nuclear Age”, Out of the Blue Drill Hall, Edinburgh, UK (curator — Yasuko Claremont)

2022 — “In Ukraine”, The Gallery at Dobbin Mews, New York, USA (curators — Ira Lupu, Fred Ritchin)

2022 — “Material Nation”, Urania, Berlin, Germany

2022 — “Slava Ukraini”, le DOC, Paris, France, Galerie Czwartek, Warsaw, Poland

2022 — exhibition of the finalists of Palm* Photo Prize, 10 14 Gallery, London, UK

2022-2023 — “Parle-leur de batailles, de météores et de caviar d’aubergine”, Stimultania, Strasboutgh, Galerie Le Carré d’Art, Chartres-de-Bretagne, France

2023 — “Après Vous”, Maison Fraternelle, Paris, France

2023 — “Home. Ukrainian Photography”, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK (curators — Viktoria Bavykina, Max Gorbatskyi)

2023 — “UKRAINE, PHOTO DAYS”, Centre Claude Cahun, Nantes, France

2023 — “When Desire Becomes Home”, Villa in Roma, Mexcio City, Mexico (curator — Filipka Rutkowska)

2024 — “100% L’EXPO”, La Villette, Paris, France

2024 — “Essential Goods / Перше Необхідне”, Pavilion of Culture, Kyiv, Ukraine (curators — Isabella van Marle, Sonya Kvasha)

2024 — “Forever and a Day”, Melkweg Expo, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2024 — “Generations of Resilience”, Hangar Photo Art Center, Brussels, Belgium (curator — Kateryna Radchenko)

2024 — screening during Boutographies Festival, Montpellier, France (project “Temporary Homes”)

2024 — screening during Circulations Festival, Paris, France (project “Temporary Homes”)

Fedorova, Anastasiia. “Documenting Ukraine’s student dormitories and a generation ready for change”. New East Digital Archive, May 11, 2021. https://www.new-east-archive.org/features/show/12733/student-dormitories-kyiv-ukraine-photography-temporary-homes.

Isabella, Laura. “Ukrainian collective Join The Cool recreate an Eastern European school graduation album”. It’s Nice That, November 6, 2018. https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/join-the-cool-vinietka-photography-061118.

Kash, Katia. “Chiselled beauty: portraits of fatefully fragile youth”. New East Digital Archive, November 20, 2015. https://www.new-east-archive.org/tiles/show/4957/chiselled-beauty-daria-svertilova-youth-photography.

Khmelnitski, Nastasia. “Changing Direction to Art and Documentary Photography”. WÜL Magazine, n.d. https://www.wulmagazine.com/interviews/daria-svertilova.

Khmelnitski, Nastasia. “Mother Water”. WÜL Magazine, n.d. https://www.wulmagazine.com/stories/daria-svertilova-sana-shahmuradova.

Moroz, Sarah. “‘Glory to Ukraine!’ – photographers from the country put on a compelling show”. The Guardian, March 16, 2022. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/mar/16/glory-ukraine-photographers-show-true-spirit.

Raimbeau, Tess. “‘Irréversiblement altérés’ : deux ans de guerre dans le viseur de l’Ukrainienne Daria Svertilova”. Libération, February 24, 2024. https://www.liberation.fr/international/irreversiblement-alteres-deux-ans-de-guerre-dans-le-viseur-de-lukrainienne-daria-svertilova-20240224_WXLHSUNGO5A4LKP4HO7ZKXXLUU/.

Schneider, Anna. “‘Summerland’ by Photographer Daria Svertilova”. BOOOOOOOM, September 14, 2022.https://www.booooooom.com/2022/09/14/summerland-by-photographer-daria-svertilova/.

Skelton, Flossie. “Ukraine through the lenses of its contemporary women photographers”. British Journal of Photography, May 21, 2021. https://www.1854.photography/2021/05/ukraine-through-the-lenses-of-its-contemporary-women-photographers/.

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