Daria Daka Vasiuta

My work explores symbolic narratives in everyday life – small fragments, pauses, and hidden stories that most people pass without noticing.
At the center of my practice is AVGYR – a personal mythology built around a single bird: soaring and threatening, watchful and unstable. The bird sees the world as it is – one eye, or one side of it, notices the light; three eyes see the dark. Sometimes it looks through only one. Through this recurring figure I explore the world – its moods, tensions, and everything that texture can hold.
My process is deliberate and material-driven. I work with layered texture, calligraphy, embroidery, and tactile marks – not to decorate, but to slow down the act of looking.
I was born in Leningrad and spent years in the Far East – where I learned that empty space is not absence. It breathes. It holds meaning the same way a filled surface does. That understanding runs through everything I make: my practice moves between European classical structure and this different way of reading silence, line, and what is left unsaid.
Currently based in Armenia, I continue to work as an observer in motion.

Daka is a visual artist based in Armenia working with layered ink graphics, embroidery, and tactile surfaces. Her practice combines rigorous classical training with a deeply personal symbolic language built around contradiction, duality, and what remains hidden in plain sight.
With over 20 years of active practice, she graduated with honors from the Faculty of Art and Graphic Design with an exchange programme in South Korea, was a member of the Union of Artists of Russia (2018-2025), and has exhibited internationally, including the XIII All-Russian Art Exhibition in Moscow (2019). For eight years she taught at university level – an experience that shaped her disciplined yet experimental approach.
She now works independently. At the core of her current practice is AVGYR – an ongoing personal mythology and the foundation of her international work.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 – Between the Sun and the Moon, Art Floor Gallery, Pacific National University, Khabarovsk
2018 – H.O.U.R. 2, Palace of Creative Intelligentsia, Khabarovsk
2016 – Birds, Fish, and Trees, Palace of Creative Intelligentsia, Khabarovsk

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 – Gyumri Art Week, «Beyond Form» workshop, Armenia
2023 – Art: Day by Day, A.M. Fedotov Gallery, Khabarovsk
2019 – Russia, XIII All-Russian Art Exhibition, Central House of Artists, Moscow
2018 – XII Regional Art Exhibition, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
2018 – Silver Wave Graphics Festival, Metamorphosis Gallery of Modern Art, Komsomolsk-on-Amur
2018 – Thirst for Life, Union of Artists Gallery, Vladivostok
2015 – Exhibition of Illustrations, Far Eastern State Scientific Library, Khabarovsk
2014 – NEFORMAT, Group Exhibition of Informal Art, Art Hall Gallery, Khabarovsk
2009–2022 – Regional Annual Exhibitions of the Union of Artists of Russia (selected), A.M. Fedotov Gallery, Khabarovsk
2006 – Falling into the World, Art Cellar Gallery, Khabarovsk