Daria Pravda is an interdisciplinary artist based in St Petersburg. Her artistic method is a synthesis of literature and visual art, through which she creates stories that take the form of installations, photographs, and performances. All of her works are made on behalf of protagonists of the story; installations recreate the story’s setting. Pravda works with personal mythology, while also exploring mechanisms of cognitive processes and perception.
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The Electrical Body, 2021. From 1881 to 1896, a secret society named Torus existed in St Petersburg. It was founded by Elizaveta Dmitrievna Pribytkova (1848–1896), a famous medium
The Electrical Body, 2021. Elizaveta Dmitrievna came into contact with a spirit who taught her how to achieve “an electrical body”: to reach a state of consciousness that enables the comprehension of higher worlds
The Electrical Body, 2021. That was made possible through a special concentration method, where one was made aware of their electromagnetic field and felt its lines of force in the form of a toroid
The Electrical Body, 2021. Those who mastered the technique could, through open magnetic lines of force and wave resonance, contact the magnetic field of the Earth, then those of the Sun and the Universe
The Electrical Body, 2021. Instructed by Pribytkova’s spirit teacher, in 1896 the society travelled to the Franz Josef Land archipelago, where the solar wind penetrates the Earth through its magnetosphere’s open lines of force
The Electrical Body, 2021. The group, who looked to connect with the electrical body of the Sun, disappeared without a trace. The results of the expedition will forever remain a mystery
The Spherites, 2016. This work tells the fictional story of the Spherites sect that existed in Kronstadt in the late 1960s, founded by Vera Pavlova, a worker of the Kronstadt Ship Repair Plant
The Spherites, 2016. Pavlova, who one day found a large gray hemisphere with a smaller sphere beside it in the factory yard, was impressed by the structure and saw it as a symbol of unity
The Spherites, 2016. The sect’s main practice was the development of spherical perception as opposed to existing in the focusing mode of perception. Thus, a practitioner could reach integrity and harmonisation
The Spherites, 2016. To explored the inner space of their mind, the spherites used a "spheroscope", as well as spherical drawings and a special way of concentration
IT'S COMING, 2009
SUPREME ALPHABET, 2011
From the project LETTERS FROM THE OTHER SIDE, 2017
From the project THE VISIBLE AND THE INVISIBLE, 2018
