Daria Goncharova is an interdisciplinary artist born 1993 in Samara. From 2019 to 2022 she lived and worked in St. Petersburg. Currently lives and works in Serbia.
She graduated from the Samara State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering in 2015. Since 2022 to 2024 she has been studying at the Institute of Contemporary Art Josef Bakstein.
The first exhibition with Daria’s participation took place in 2016, after which she actively participated in various cultural programmes (educational laboratories and workshops, residencies, group and personal exhibitions).
Her work has been shown in exhibitions in Serbia, Montenegro, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Germany, Finland and Russia.
The work «An equation with unknowns» (2023) is part of the project “Fragments of Navigation” started in Belgrade. The current project is based on a reflection on the notion of escapism, the substitution of real relationships with imaginary worlds. A persistent longing for an illusory reality is consistently projected onto reality, reproduced again and again, but leading nowhere. Working with the poetic image of failure, the disruption of the logical chain, I use the concept of disrupted navigation, revealing it as a symptom of our permanent longing for transcendence and our futile but no less desirable attempts to escape reality.The deconstruction of navigational signs serves here as a metaphorical reflection of the fragile and unstable world of rules. It exposes the fragmentary nature of the narratives and routes we create, a kind of shell of alternative realities that appear as a means of possible escape.