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Yeva Sihachova
In _gathered, I superimpose archival portrait photographs of my relatives onto my own face. The work turns to the history of my family, shaped by multiple migrations across the Soviet and post-socialist space. A grandfather who lived in both Tatarstan and Germany, a grandmother from the Far East, and a Romani relative — their scattered biographies ultimately intersect in my face and find continuation in my own history of migration. A childhood photograph of me with missing milk teeth completes the sequence.
Yeva Sihachova is a Ukrainian artist based in Berlin. In her practice, which combines installation, photography, drawing, and work with archives, she investigates the phenomenon of violence, as well as questions of memory, body and space.
Her works emerge from personal experience while unfolding within a broader historical context. Sihachova explores how violence — intimate, social, or historical — leaves traces in bodies, spaces, and in both collective and personal memory.
Drawing on personal archives and the experience of forced displacement following the destruction of her hometown Mariupol, she works with themes of vulnerability, survival, and the fragile boundary between private trauma and collective history.