Synthetic Souls
The project Synthetic Souls is a visual statement about the boundary between the human and the artificial in a world where technology increasingly claims the role of a subject. In her work, Daria Atamanovskaya addresses themes of identity, vulnerability, and the impossibility of fully replacing human experience with artificial intelligence.
About the Project
Daria Atamanovskaya is a multimedia artist whose practice brings together photography, video, 3D, experimental printing techniques, and visual storytelling. Her works intertwine personal nostalgia, post-Soviet experience and trauma, images of strong female figures, and femininity as a layered cultural and bodily phenomenon. The artist constructs her own symbolic world, where motifs of inner harmony, loneliness, and connection to the body are constantly present.
3D: ashoka3dd
Styling: Liza Niroba
Concept and Visual Language
The visual language of the project emphasizes the fragility and alienation of artificial characters, their outward closeness to humans, and their inner distance. These “synthetic souls” appear almost alive, yet retain a sense of isolation and the inaccessibility of full human presence.
Ethical Dimension
The conceptual and ethical core of the project addresses the impossibility for artificial intelligence to fully occupy a “human” position. Synthetic Souls explores the forced marginality of artificial forms of life and raises the question of whether, in a future world, they can attain belonging, identity, and recognition. The project does not propose utopian solutions; instead, it captures a state of rupture — between the desire to be and the impossibility of becoming.
3D: ashoka3dd
Styling: Liza Niroba
