‘化蛇’— 塞尼亚·德拉尼什
Snaked is a video art project born from an intense confrontation with fear and a looming sense of change in 2019. Using the snake as a potent metaphor for deeply personal and primal terror, I embarked on a journey of exploration. My aim was to become one with my fear, to embody it on both physical and emotional planes, to strip myself bare before it – in both a literal and figurative sense – and to embrace its inescapable nature, ultimately merging with it completely. To facilitate this, I created a three-meter tail, which became my companion in the Dahab desert, as I sought to capture this transformative process.
Isolated in the vast desert landscape, I dissolved into my surroundings and into the wellspring of my emotions, bracing myself for the impending upheaval. Knowing that my life would be irrevocably altered upon my return, I felt compelled to preserve this fleeting moment. "Snaked" proved to be both a premonition and a prophecy – following the filming, my life was indeed reshaped in profound ways; hidden truths were brought to light, ushering in an era of both pain and profound transformation. Like a serpent shedding its skin, I stepped into a new existence, forever leaving the vestiges of the past behind.
Camera: Natalia Tazbash
Post-Production: Roman Dranysh
The project premiered at the exhibition "Let a Lucky Star Shine in the Darkness" at the GUM-RED-LINE gallery in 2019/20.
In 2020, the project was also showcased at the Loop video art festival in Barcelona as part of the Maritima project.
In 2021, the project was presented with Maritima01 Video-art Festival at the Museu de Bulevard, Palma de Mallorca.
In 2022, through the international Maritima program, the project was featured in the "Amphibies" exhibition at Poush Manifesto in Paris.
Born on 1989 in Moscow
I am a multidisciplinary artist with many years of experience, working across various media, including graphic arts, painting, ceramics, sculpture, photography, video art, textiles, and installations. I also occasionally create my own designer collections of clothing and accessories, tableware, forge collaborations with brands, and write texts.
Above all, my art is a means of exploring myself and my inner states. My works are a dialogue between the visible and the invisible, the physical world and the sphere of feelings, personal experiences and universal human questions. I investigate the fragility and mutability of human identity, and I am interested in how our "self" is shaped by our environment, experiences, and memories.
I find most of the imagery in my artwork within my dreams, visions from meditation, and therapeutic hypnosis sessions.
I love vibrant colors, wordplay, ambiguity, the combination of beauty and absurdity, spirituality, and punk. I am inspired by people and songs, contrasts, feelings, philosophy, religions and diverse cultures, conspiracy theories, fashion, theatricality, and singing.
Member of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia. Section: Newest Trends
Works are held in private collections in Russia and abroad. In the collection of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA).
EDUCATION:
2008-2014: Moscow State Stroganov Academy of Industrial and Applied Arts (MGHPA named after S.G. Stroganov). Major: Artistic Ceramics.
2004-2008: College of Artistic Crafts No. 59. Specialization: Painting Artist.
