Born in the town of Yakovlevo, Russia in 1984. Lives and works in Kyiv. Uses such media as performance, installation and video in her artistic practice. Studied journalism at the Ivan Franko National University in Lviv and direction in the Karpenko-Karyy National Theatre, Cinema and Television University in Kyiv. As a film director and artist, she preaches intersectional feminism and posthumanism, researches the existing authorities and the ways corporeal practices can undermine them. Co-founded the OKSANAS art collective and the Bodily Practices project. Received an award for the best short film (“The Secret, the Girl and the Boy”) at the Odesa International Film Festival in 2019. Taught film direction at Wesleyan University, the USA. Took part in many national and international projects: Mykola Ridnyy’s “Armed and Dangerous”, the “Countryside practices: seasonal closeness” special project as part of the fifth Odesa Biennale of Contemporary Art, Odesa, Ukraine (2017), the Kyiv School modern art biennale, Kyiv/Vienna (2015), Berlinale Talents as part of the Berlin International Film Festival, Berlin (2014).
