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Elena Yaichnikova
curating, writing, researching
in contemporary art and
transcultural studies
My area of research and curatorial practice focuses on how artistic forms, ideas and practices relate to historical, geographical and intellectual contexts, and how they are transformed through encounters with cultures and ideas from elsewhere.
Rather than treating cultures as self-contained entities, I approach exhibitions as spaces of translation, where meanings are displaced, negotiated and reconfigured.
My projects frequently bring together contemporary art, historical archives, literature, education, architecture and other forms of knowledge, tracing unexpected affinities across periods and cultural traditions. Stories, gestures and artefacts become occasions to examine processes of exchange, adaptation and mutual transformation.
What does a transcultural approach to curating mean? Not the juxtaposition of different cultures, but the study of the relations, translations and frictions through which cultures encounter one another and produce new forms of meaning. The exhibition becomes a site of correspondence rather than comparison, allowing heterogeneous histories and practices to enter into dialogue without being reduced to a single narrative.
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