Diana Faksh

As an artist of Ukrainian and Syrian origin, I stand like an open umbrella under a rain of multiple languages, trying to catch droplets of meaning that slip through my fingers.

My classical education propels me into a whirlwind of papier-mâché icons and invisible frescoes, where the majesty of stone collapses into the words.

The monumental for me is nothing more than a memory, a great mountain of moss, fragile and ephemeral, wearing itself out with every attempt to climb its surface.

I seek the horizon, but every time I think I've reached it, it turns into a giant snail, crawling and escaping me forever. I find myself stacking with letters on my legs and my hands, making words that have neither meaning nor direction. An alphabet walking backward, arms raised toward a sky no one looks at.

My works? They are sitting there, like half-filled teacups, wobbling, waiting for a gesture, a breeze, or even an idea to tip them over. They tell nothing, yet they say everything.

2023 – 2024 Exchange Master, HEAD – Geneva, Switzerland
2022 – 2024 Master of Fine Arts, ENSAPC – Paris-Cergy, France
2019 – 2022 Bachelor of Fine Arts, ENSAPC – Paris-Cergy, France
2017 – 2019 Master, National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture, Kyiv, Ukraine
2013 – 2017 Bachelor, National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture, Kyiv, Ukraine

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 La marée basse de Cipollino, DNSEP ENSAPC, Cergy, France
2017 For fun, Art Space Art Sklo, Kyiv, Ukraine

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025

Performance NOW! Festival, Budapest, Hungary (with School of Disobedience & Agora Community)
2024

LES MATRICES DE L’ART, LMDPerformance + KYD + Den dagen den sorgen (One day at a time), photomontage by Larseric Vänerlöf (1983), Karlaplan metro station, Stockholm, Sweden
LMDPatrimoine, Rörboa (Grange des Tubes), Lesjöfors Museum, Lesjöfors, Sweden
LMDPlumes d’enclume, Gjuterihallen (Foundry Hall), Lesjöfors Museum, Lesjöfors, Sweden
LES SÉPARABLES OU L’ART COMME EXIL À DOMICILE, Långban, Värmlands Museum, Sweden
Mercure rétrograde, L’Épicerie du Nord, Lesjöfors, Sweden
La roue de la fortune, Tour Orion, Vincennes, France
Biruchiy Nontron 024 – "Lima of Love", Artist residency and exhibition, Nontron, France
Close Up, Curated by Camille Martin, Neuville-sur-Seine, France
La nouba asmar des femmes du 8 mars, Festival Piak Piak, Paris, France (with Collectifnest and UNION QUOI? INTERNQTIONQL.E)
2023

LESJÖFORS-SAMTIDA, Les territoires de l’art n°8, Lesjöfors Museum, Sweden
LMDPrécession ou Pause-café astronomique, Performance, Paris, France
UA Brave support event, Solidarity exhibition...