Irina Zadorozhnaia

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Irina Zadorozhnaia is a multimedia artist working at the intersection of experimental cinema and digital simulation. Her practice weaves together documentary fragments, 3D environments, and AI agents, exposing the narrowing gap between the human, the interface, and machinic sensitivity.

The focus of her practice lies in tracing how new affects emerge from the collision between the biological and the computational — states not always formalizable, yet unmistakably felt. Her projects construct specific conditions of experience — fragmentary, nonlinear, at times glitching — where the documentary intertwines with simulation and the personal becomes an architecture of interaction.

Education

2013-2015 FotoDepartament (St. Petersburg, RU)
1999-2003 Graduated with honors from the National Theatre, Cinema and Television University. Department of acting and directing (Kiev, UA)

Exhibitions & Events

2025 "My Mother Was a Computer" Exhibition, Zifergauz Gallery (Saint Petersburg, RU)
2025 "Eden's Fringe", Athens Digital Arts Festival (Athens, GR)
2024 RuArts Gallery, "Colour vs. Black and White" (Moscow, RU)
2024 "My Limbo Land" Exhibition, Part I & Part III at Yekaterininskoye Sobraniye (St. Petersburg, RU)
2024 Port Art Fair, Sevcable Port (St. Petersburg, RU)
2023 RuArts Gallery, "Live Form. From Carbon to Silicon" (Moscow, RU)
2023 Port Art Fair, Sevcable Port (St. Petersburg, RU)
2022 "Sentimentality for Jess. A performance of narrative knowledge.", Sevcable Port (St. Petersburg, RU)
2022 "Sentimentality for Jess" artist talk, Tochka Kipenia, Lenpolygraphmash Technopark (St. Petersburg, RU)
2022 "Co-creators" exhibition, Amphitheatre of Lenpolygraphmash Technopark (St. Petersburg, RU)
2022 "272244. Capsule №1", 212 SAFE WEEKEND programme, 212 Studio (St. Petersburg, RU)
2018 "Here I live", Mediacongress, The State Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg, RU)
2018 "Uncommon Natures" as a part of "Brighton Digital Festival" (Brighton, UK)
2018 "Lumen exhibition" (London, UK)
2017 "Journey to Jess" video installation within the festival of contemporary photography "Presence II" "Berthold Centre" (St. Petersburg, RU)
2017 "Relapse of Private" /National Centre of Contemporary Arts (Moscow, RU)
2017 "Journey to Jess" video installation at Art Fair Suomi (Helsinki, FI)
2017 The presentation of the project "Journey to Jess" within the discussion "We are dealing with the image", Garage Museum (Moscow, RU)
2016 "Peach garden. Installation" within the festival of contemporary photography "Presence" (St. Petersburg, RU)
2016 "The Observer Effect" works at Cosmoscow Art Fair (Moscow, RU)
2016 "Machine. Evidences" as part of "Photoparade in Uglich" (Uglich, RU)
2015 "The Observer Effect" (Stockholm, SE)
2015 "The Observer Effect", the project presented at "Experiences of Brownian Motion" in The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography (Moscow, RU)
2015 "Construction. Photography in search of approach" as part of "Photoparade in Uglich" (Uglich, RU)
2015 "The Photobook Show" at Athens Photo Festival '15 (Benaki Museum, Athen, GR)
2014 Personal 'The drill charted a point and bore a hole. Input/output. Where is the creature: inside or outside?' (St. Petersburg, RU)
2014 "Sam Izdam" (Novosibirsk, RU)
2014 "Krasnoyarsk Book Culture Fair" (Krasnoyarsk, RU)
2014 "Photobook Week Aarhus" (Aarhus, DK)
2014 "Institute.Production" (Kazan, RU)
2014 "I'mpressed" (St. Petersburg, RU)

Books

2017 "Machine" within the project "Amplitude №1"
2016 "Machine"
2015 "The Observer Effect" dummy
2014 "The drill charted a point and bore a hole. Input/output. Where is the creature: inside or outside?"

Awards

2024 "My Limbo Land. Breakfast. Episode III" took 1st place in the category "Artist's digital film" at the restore:digital art contest
2023 Hall "The Mourners". MUGA–03–002 is awarded in the "From Carbon to Silicon" contest in the Web 3.0 category
2018 "Sentimentality for Jess" takes Brighton Audience Award
2018 "Sentimentality for Jess" shortlisted at Lumen Prize 2018
2017 "Machine" within the project "Amplitude №1" has been shortlisted for Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards 2017
2016 "Machine" has been shortlisted for 2016 Gomma Grant
2015 "The Observer Effect" has been shortlisted for 2015 Unseen Dummy Award (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
2015 "The Observer Effect" has been shortlisted for Spine Dummy Award 2015 (Stockholm, Sweden)

Publications