SenyaSon
Lukashenia
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About the artist
(she/they)
I was born in 2002 in Belarus, Baranovichi, which inevitably led to me getting interested in moving somewhere else. I think my relationship with my motherlands is something that took nearly two decades to form and is finally ready to overtake my art. Though, now, having passed the 3 year mark since the beginning of my migration experience, I understand better than ever thedesire to work for my community inside and outside the country and dream of coming back some day and renew the Belarusian art scene.
At the present time my main mediums are
photography, videoart, poetry, installations and performances.
Main topics of my artistic activity and research:
gender, sexuality, body, nationality, languages
Currently I am living and working in Vilnius, Lithuania
- 2018 - prior – a member of European Youth Parliament, mostly taking positions in Media Team responsible for photo- and video-outcome of the events
- November 2020 - prior – occupied as a video editress for Belarusian-Lithuanian project “Kropka”, editing videos about the political situation in Belarus
- June-July 2021 – co-creator of installation “The Cage” dedicated to Belarusian political prisoners. The installation stood on a square in the center of Vilnius for over a month drawing the attention of Media and citizens
- February 2022 – one of the artists participating in multimedia exhibition “Life overcame Death” organized by students of European Humanities University
- April-May 2022 – an organizer and participating artist in an interactive exhibition by the transmedia project "UNMENTIONED"
- October 2022-prior – a co-organizer of a pop-up exhibition of Antanina Kamelchyk "SEVEN"
PHOTOGRAPHY
the eyes of beholder
VIDEOART
short films, essays, commercials
POETRY
textual
EVENTS and projects
doings and beings
Instagram is my main archive throughout the years -
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PHOTOGRAPHY
I'm a self-taught photographer for 5 years already, though I've started to take the camera with me everywhere much earlier
There’s barely anything else that can stun me as much as the light does, most of all – in its golden gentle piercing form. This is the goal I’m following when I switch the camera on to take a picture or film a video – to search for the light and let others see it, either in its pure form or reflected in calm ethereal faces, tender hands and eyes of those I capture
(you can click on some of the icons to see the full folders with pictures)
event
and concert
photography
commercial
photography
personal
photoprojects
click to read more details on some of the personal projects
VIDEOART
I am creating short films, montage films, informative news videos, interviews, video essays, commercial videos.
My main occupations in video production are editress and/or directress in team projects, but when it comes to my own projects I usually do all the work by myself, writing, filming, directingand editing the videos.
some of
MY PERSONAL VIDEO PROJECTS
my short film "Scattered nest"
received an award as "The best documentary film" at the student film festival "Retrospective 2022"
some of the
SIDE VIDEO PROJECTS
PO
ET
RY
click to read an e-version of a book
I was writing texts for more than a half of my life: naive school fiction and poems, academical essays, scenarios for shows and videos. I loved working with the words, but at the end of the day I prioritized the visual art sphere, moving writing to the side to serve as notes, markings of my mental health and descriptions.
But this year, it changed.
This August I designed and self-printed a book of my poems written in a year of living in the Netherlands. "A short guide to Dutch bread and being in love with a poet" is a letter both to lover and self, reflectory, honest and awkward. In the book, I let loose, my worries about gender, sexuality, nationality, war and traumas, keeping me in a loop of fearful stillness. Changes, loops, love and belonging – these are the main topics of my first poetry book.
The first test edition of 22 copies is sold out by now.
EVENTS AND PROJECTS
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EVENTS AND PROJECTS
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EVENTS AND PROJECTS
EVENTS AND PROJECTS
coming soon
(for now, you can receive all the event information from the recommendation letter)