BIOGRAPHY

Maryna Semenkova (1983) is a socially-engaged artist and researcher from Ukraine, who uses photography and performance as main mediums. The main directions of her art practices are eco-mind feminism and collective memory. She is a former lawyer who transformed into an artist after a major existential crisis. Maryna’s art practice was greatly influenced by her work with personal psychological traumas, working with which she discovered many patterns of behavior related to the history of the Soviet Union, during which she was born and raised. And she sees the war between Ukraine and Russia as a trigger that uncovered unreflected topics at the level of nations and states. And Maryna considers to raise these topics up through visual constructions and the prism of personal history.

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