Daria Akimova (Russia)

//BIO

Daria Akimova is an artist and curator. Born in Rybinsk, Russia in 1992. Lives in St. Petersburg, Moscow and Tbilisi (Georgia)

//ARTIST STATEMENT

My project is related to explore the practice of parenting through making art and making art through parenting. It will aim to create a comfortable safe space for women with children who feel isolated while taking care about their children and may be excluded from social and cultural life.

Format: depending on the epidemiological conditions. At the main stage, daily meetings of the formed group are supposed. Each meeting will include communication and practice + optional tasks for the week and their analysis, the second part would be a lecture. Theoretical part: аnalysis of practices based on the experience of parenting or observation of forms of interaction (children – adults, children with each other, the inner child and the inner adult).

//EXPERIENCE AT NART