Anastasiya Plotnikova (Mariupol, Ukraine) and her partner Sonia Dobaj (Slovakia)
Anastasiya Plotnikova is an Ukrainian cinematographer. Starting as a photojournalist, she worked on exploring technical and dramatic ways of telling stories through moving images. Her two main areas of specialization are art documentation and filming choreography. Anastasiya balances between video reportage and classical cinematography to build it the way so the result represents the art piece’s true expression.
Sonia Dobaj is an interdisciplinary artist, born in Slovakia 1988. She graduated from Oxford Brookes University in 2016 with a BA degree in Fine Art and an MA degree in Contemporary Arts. Leaving her home country at the age of 18, she is in a habitual expat mindset exploring different countries and cultures. In 2017, she worked as a sculptor for Barrandov Film Studios a.s.,Prague, Czech Republic. In 2019, she became an art educator and curriculum developer in Ningbo, China. Sonia's art practice is capturing the dialog between the scientific and instinctive, based in installation art, video art, sculpture and painting. Her work reflects on environmental global changes that occur in our biological and anatomical structures /our bodies/ and the environment we live in.
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