Zinaida Zakharova

At the core of my artistic practice is an engagement with the archive as a living, unstable substance of memory. I
perceive the archive not as a fixed past or a document, but as a fluid space of reassembly, displacement, and
reinterpretation of personal and collective histories. Images in my works lose their singular meaning,
transforming into traces, imprints, and visual echoes of lived experience.
I work within the field of slow media, deliberately decelerating the process of art-making. The gradual
emergence of the image, physical interaction with the material, and the dependence of the result on time, light,
and chemical reactions become integral to the artistic statement. For me, not only the final form is significant,
but the process itself—as an act of contemplation and resistance to the accelerated consumption of visual
information.
In my practice, I have developed a multilayered, authorial technique that brings together alternative
photographic processes—cyanotype and kallitype—with image transfer and collage. The layering of techniques
generates a complex visual structure in which each layer retains its own autonomy while simultaneously
entering into dialogue with others. The image emerges through accumulation, erasure, a...

Education:
-Development of Visual Perception, FineArt School, Moscow (2014)
-Photography as Contemporary Art, New School of Photography, Russia (2014, 2021)
-Workshops in watercolor, acrylic, mixed media, cyanotype, and art history (2016–2025)