(b. 1987, Kyiv, Ukraine)
Fedora Akimova is a mixed-media artist specializing in installations, video, and objects. Born in 1987 in Kyiv, she began her creative career as an illustrator after earning her first degree in Printmaking and Graphics. In 2010, she moved to Russia, first to Kaliningrad, then to Saint Petersburg, where she studied decoration and staging. This degree in Theatrical Decoration and Scenography had a significant influence on her development as an artist, as she integrated many techniques and crafts into her work. Since March 2022, Fedora has been living and working in Tbilisi (Georgia) and Paris. Before February 24, her works resembled plastic experiments used to express global civilizational and philosophical issues, reflecting an escapism into a hypothetical world devoid of humanity. The full-scale invasion, her relocation, and the upheaval of her daily life compelled her to reevaluate her identity and artistic strategy, leading her to reinvent her artistic language and incorporate more political and socially charged themes into her work.
Reem Alnatsheh
(b. 1993, Hebron, Palestine)
Reem Alnatsheh is a visual artist. In her paintings, Reem Alnatsheh summons stories of displacement, resistance and identity from oriental folk tales, metaphorically referring to the reality of her country. She is a fine arts graduate of An-Najah University (2018). In 2019, she won the Ismail Shamout Prize for Art and Culture and participated in INT’L Art fair in Egypt (2022), the Biennial of Venezuela (2021), DAR Art Fair, Jordan (2021), as well as the group exhibition Telling the Palestinian story at the Palestine Museum (2020). In 2020, she presented her solo exhibition Nos Nsais, at the Bab idDeir gallery in Bethlehem. In residence at the Cité des Arts in 2022, she moved to Paris and became a member of the workshop of artists in exile. In May 2023, she presented the exhibition Layers of Identity at the Maison Bruneau, Paris.
Daria Trubarova
(b. 1991, Penza, Russia)
Daria Trubarova is a multimedia artist. She works with 3D modeling, augmented reality, and multimedia installations, and she also engages in traditional painting and textile techniques. Her work highlights the culture of the Mordvin people, one of Russia’s indigenous groups, while exploring themes of memory, identity, consumption, and ecological resource reproduction. She graduated with a degree in social sciences from Dubna International University in 2012 and completed her studies at the Rodchenko School of Modern Art in 2022. She was an artist-in-residence at Vyksa AIR and participated in numerous group exhibitions including If Museum Walls Could Talk, Stanford University in 2023, Feral Automated System, Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria, Vanadium Bloom, CUBE.Moscow, in Moscow, Russia, in 2022. In 2023, she presented her project at Ars Electronica in Austria, addressing ecological systems and future scenarios in the Anthropocene era. Her performance on homelessness was featured in the II Contemporary Art event at the Garage Museum in Moscow. Due to political reasons, She relocated to France and became a member of the Agency of artists in exile.
Ksenia Yablonskaya
(b. 1991, Minsk, Belarus)
Ksenia Yablonskaya is a photographer. She graduated from the Rodchenko School of Contemporary Art in Moscow. She has lived and worked in Paris since 2023. Her work is included in the collections of the Moscow Museum of Multimedia Art (MAMM), Cancan Galerie (Percy, France) and other private collections. In her work, she bears witness to individual experiences through both documentary and metaphorical images. Her approach is rooted in contemporary reality and questions the themes of fear, social inequality, solidarity and gender discrimination, as well as the difficulties of identity and integration. She confronts these issues as a woman artist in exile, part of the LGBTQIA+ community. She is a member of the Agency of artists in exile.