Zoya Laktionova was born in Mariupol (Ukraine), in a working class family in 1984. She is a filmmaker and visual artist who uses moving images, photography, and texts in her works. Zoya aims to convey emotions through art metaphors intertwined with the dramatic language of cinema. In her artistic practice, she adopts micro-history, auto-ethnography and creative storytelling to unfold the complexity of greater events and historical contexts. This often makes it difficult to clearly allocate Zoya’s films, which is why they are shown both at film festivals (DOK Leipzig, FID Marseille, Cottbus etc) and in art museums such as the Center Pompidou, Palais de Tokyo in Paris or the MUMOK in Vienna.

https://www.zoyalaktionova.com/

Artworks from Memory Practices (2024)