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Daria Semchuk (Сemra)

1990

My nurse-like artistic image embodies attention, care and healing. An image that is present alongside those who seek solace and perhaps healing in art. Someone who serves as a mediator between wounds, wounded subjects and bystanders.

My paintings as a place of "displeasure", a sincere speech without domination, where the wounds of the addressee are acknowledged. The recognition of traces of unsymbolized, unbearable trauma guides the subject. They are wounded, but alive. Like Belarus.

MY ARTISTIC STATEMENT

Transforming Darkness into Triumph through Art

My paintings become narratives with wings and bandages, where the bandages become canvases and the body of the painting is perceived as a living being, decorated with wounds and scars, depicted with realistic truthfulness. Using plaster bandages and epoxy resin, I create texture and apply the painterly qualities of oil paint to complete the work.

Blood, as material evidence of a wound, is always visible, and healing is a process, but is it ever possible? Can a wounded subject escape trauma? In my context, this refers to people forced to leave their homes and endure separation.

The post-traumatic universe in my works is dedicated to the surviving characters: all these traces on the body of the painting are not the end, it is a recognition of a new birth in separation.

They are, above all, about wounded and displaced identities. The wound does not destroy the subject, nor does it kill. It makes the subject alive: potentially more alive and self-aware than before.

ABOUT ME

Darya Semchuk, 33, was born in Grodno, Belarus.

Why "Cemra"? This Belarusian word translates as "darkness". In my conceptual art, I explore the dark and painful aspects of human nature. My goal is to confront the critical issues of our time and discover a vivid, emotional way of expression.

Selected events

Selected Artwork Series

Selected artworks

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Articles on KALEKTAR

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Selected dates:

1990

Born in Grodno (BSSR, today the Republic of Belarus).

2019

Group exhibition The Autumn Salon, National gallery Palace of Arts, Minsk, Belarus.

2019

Group exhibition Triennial of Young Artists, National gallery Palace of Arts, Minsk, Belarus.

2020

Group exhibition Art-Minsk the international art festival, National gallery Palace of Arts, Minsk, Belarus.

2020

Solo exhibition CEMRA Art-Belarus gallery, Minsk, Belarus.

2021

Solo exhibition ESTHETIC PAIN, A&V Art Gallery, Minsk, Belarus.

2021

Group exhibition The Autumn Salon, National gallery Palace of Arts, Minsk, Belarus.

2023

Solo exhibition LAZARET, Beseder Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.

2023

Solo exhibition LAZARET, Museum of Free Belarus, Warsaw, Poland.

2023

Group exhibition Charity Auction for the Humanosh Foundation, Exhibition of works by Belarusian, Ukrainian, and Polish artists, Piękna Gallery, Warsaw, Poland.

2023

Group exhibition Where am I. Exhibition of contemporary Belarusian art, Montenegro European Art Community Gallery, Budva, Montenegro.

2023

Group exhibition Who Owns the Land: Art as agent of expression conflict, statelessness, diaspora, coloniality, THE PINNA Gallery, exhibition online, London, England.