Daria Chernyshova

Daria Chernyshova (b. 1988) is a visual artist based in Berlin. The artist gives intuition a leading role in her practice. The starting point of her artworks is an ephemeral vision seen by her inner eye. She develops the author's method of documenting her visual insights, supplementing them with records of emotions translated into a graphic language. The drawing process becomes stores and then reproduces tool she uses to observe faculty by which the mind memorizes, information in a reimagined form.

 

Her compositions combine abstraction with geometric shapes and often include figurative elements referring to her personal recollections. These sheets resemble tables, schedules, questionnaires, or notebook pages that she fills out during self-reflection sessions to track changes in her mental content. Besides the interest in the functioning of the psyche, her attention is directed to the opposition of personal and public, individual and social.

 

Chernyshova chose drawing on paper as her primary medium because it allowed her to most accurately and quickly capture her impressions using the simplest materials. Seeking to expand the medium's possibilities, she includes threads as a graphical element and also works with collage and multi-layered surlaces. Through regular intuitive practice, she gradually recognizes and overcomes the prohibitions imposed by a pedantic internal critic and questions the rules that come from external sources.