Danila Tkachenko
Danila Tkachenko was born in Moscow, Russia, in 1989. Lives and works in Moscow.
Danila Tkachenko was born in Moscow, Russia, in 1989. Lives and works in Moscow.
Danila Tkachenko is a visual artist working with documentary photography. The main theme of his work is the identity. In the debut project “Transitional Age” he is interested in the transformation of a teenager’s identity – a child becomes an adult. In his following project “Escape” the focus shifts to the opposition of the individual and society. Danila researches the experience of hermits – people who live through decades alone with nature –and tries to find the answer for the critical questions: whether the individual freed from social environment becomes closer to his “true” self; and what happens to personality when it loses its “social mask.”
His recent project “Restricted Areas” is reflecting on the identity of a civilisation and its relations with technological advances. Deserted places that were once sites of national importance, buildings and machinery which are now relics of the past are photographed in a vacuum white space of eternal winter.