Bio & artist statement

Daria Lou Nakov is a lens-based mixed media artist with a background in architectural design and photography. In her works she doesn’t capture spaces but recreates her emotional and physical relation to them. The place of media both analog and digital are at the center of her practice, together and separately. Her abstract imagery gives the viewer freedom of interpretation and indirectly questions the need for realistic representations. Her image creation combines various analog and digital techniquess to create new forms of image making, the analog is the physical and the digital the imagined. Through this, she imagines how to represent and recreate in the visual world, the spaces that surrounds us and find new means of image creation. By creating abstract images, she wants to take photography outside of the realistic world of representation and questions its place in our society of constant image consumption.

She graduated with a BA in Fine arts from the photography the Gerrit Rietveld Akademie Amsterdam in July 2021. Her practice consists of installations, books and print works. Since 2017 her work have been part of group shows and bookfairs, such has the UNCUT festival at the Stedelijk Museum (2018 & 2019), ‘Auspuf’ at Looiersgracht Amsterdam (2019). Most recently, at the Pinakotek der Modern in Munich as part of Der Greif magazine 15 year anniversary event (2023) and Byob Book fair Amsterdam (2023).