Daria (Dasha) Panteleeva
Trace of petroleum
series of engravings, etching
France, Paris, 2025
The project explores the personal and ecological history of Daria Panteleeva, who grew up in Neftekamsk (Russia)— a city closely tied to oil extraction. In a family proud of its work in the fuel industry, oil was seen as a symbol of stability. This biography becomes the foundation for artistic reflection — not through rejection, but through the exploration of an inner conflict between memory, the body, and ecological anxiety. In this series of prints, Daria uses etching. The toxicity of some materials becomes part of the concept: the technique enters into dialogue with the content. The project questions the boundaries between ecological protest and cultural heritage, turning printmaking into a space for ethical reflection.
Pietà
series of engravings, etching
France, Paris, 2025
Pietà series of engravings“Pietà” is a series of engravings in which the image of two loving women, reinterpreting Michelangelo’s iconic composition, becomes a deification of love beyond gender and sexual orientation. In a world where religious pressure is intensifying again and laws against LGBTQI+ communities are growing harsher, these images transform Christian iconography into an act of resistance and recognition of the sacredness of all forms of love.
The Legend of the Trash Girls
series of engravings
France, Paris, 2025
A series of engravings based on an original legend about girls who appeared wherever people were drowning in trash — in bottles and paper scraps, in words, thoughts, news, and digital chaos. They collected everything that polluted space and consciousness: plastic wrappers, fragments of information, gossip, unnecessary anxieties. Though the girls were perfect in essence, their bodies bore traces of the pollution: bits of trash, stains, scratches — imprints of the world they were cleansing. After their work, they would rise into the sky and disappear, leaving behind a sense of lightness and freedom, along with the memory of the chaos they had absorbed.
TRASH
series of engravings
France, Paris, 2025
TRASH — a series of engravings about waste pollution in large cities.
Waste is increasingly becoming a social symptom: a habit of shifting responsibility, pushing the problem out of sight, and ignoring one’s own contribution.
Trash turns into a mirror of society, where every plastic bag or discarded object on the street becomes a marker of time.
HAUTE COUTURE
engraving
France, Paris, 2025
