In her «Limbo» series Dasha Trofimova follows up on the subject of interactions between collective and personal memories. She explores the peculiarities of the subjective notion of «home», in her case — as a descendant of Russians relocated during the Virgin Lands campaign in the 50’s and 60’s. An artist that was born and raised in Kazakhstan, she now lives as a migrant in Russia. Coming back after the long absence to the apartment in Pavlodar, where she grew up in, Dasha takes notice of all the things that piled up there for decades. Realizing that things like those are present in countless others apartments anywhere in post-soviet states, she discovers deep interconnection between the mass-produced attributes of soviet/post-soviet reality with her family history and personal memories. Dasha transforms the objects found in the apartment into new, self-contained sculptural compositions, relieving them of functionality and her emotional attachments. Then she extrapolates this practice onto other collective and personal spaces, where things are stuck in sort of a «limbo» — not yet turned into rubbish or elevated as artefacts. Through her choice of spaces for installations — unused apartments, derelict research institutes and sanatoriums — places that are already abandoned but not yet cleaned out or plundered, Dasha documents the slow withering process of social and collective institutions and growing atomization of post-soviet society. The trappings of the communal past are still there in an everyday life, but rapidly losing their meaning.
Born in 1991 in Pavlodar, Kazakhstan. Lives and works in Moscow.
Dasha Trofimova is a multidisciplinary artist working with photography, installation, sound and video. Dasha was born in Pavlodar, Kazakhstan and lived there for 17 years before moving to Russia, where she currently resides, while retaining her original citizenship. In her work, she focuses on subjects of violence, memory, migration and search for an identity in post-soviet space. Dasha Trofimova approaches social issues through her personal stories, placing them into a wider context.
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