Katsiaryna. Visual artist & researcher, journalist, and fem queer activist.
Working with memory, mimicry, and the right to opacity.

I am a visual artist and researcher based in Vilnius, Lithuania. I was born in Polesia (b. 1996), a wetland region in the south of Belarus, where the landscape and rhythms of the swamp shaped my early sensibility and perception of time.

Since 2020, following the violent suppression of pro-democracy protests in Belarus, I have lived in exile. Displacement is not only a biographical fact, but a lens through which I explore visibility, belonging, and the vulnerability of bodies under pressure. My work reflects on both personal and collective memory, often emerging from experiences of silence, dislocation, and resistance.

I work primarily with analog photography, video, scanography, field recording, and archival fragments. Through slow, tactile processes, I engage feminist, queer, and decolonial visualities to challenge extractive modes of seeing and to explore mimicry, opacity, and relationality as forms of survival and resistance.

I hold a Master’s degree in Visual Arts from the European Humanities University (Vilnius). My earlier academic background in environmental and genetic sciences continues to inform my attention to interconnected systems, fragile ecologies, and the politics of the body.