Katya Iakovleva
A Paris-based researcher, curator, and interdisciplinary artist. She explores the connections between memory, temporality, and space through photographic installations, affective mapping, and research on islands and marine environments. Trained in digital humanities, anthropology, and philosophy (PSL – EHESS, ENS, ENC), She has collaborated with institutions such as the Garage Museum (Moscow) and Ocean Space (Venice).
She combines scientific rigor with poetic sensitivity to question form, ecology, and collective narratives. Her work investigates tensions between visual technologies and embodied storytelling, using water and shorelines as emotional frameworks to rethink exhibition, portraiture, and collective space. Rooted in radical hospitality and relational philosophy, her practice blends post-anthropological research, island temporalities, and a poetics of living archives.
Collaborators Juliette Ruaux and Pia Jacqmart