{"id":2031,"date":"2026-07-20T18:02:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T15:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/photoartdoc.com\/?page_id=2031"},"modified":"2026-07-23T11:50:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T08:50:32","slug":"nizovceva_pad2026","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/photoartdoc.com\/en\/nizovceva_pad2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Jana Nizovtseva"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jana Nizovtseva was born and raised in Minsk, Belarus, and currently lives and works in Warsaw, Poland. She studied virtual environment design and has professional experience in various fields of design, including graphic design, print production, 3D, and product development. In her artistic practice, Jana works with photography and other image-based media, exploring themes of memory, identity, and belonging. Her projects often emerge from observations, questions, and engagement with materials rather than from a predetermined form. Through experimentation with images, archives, and different approaches to visual storytelling, she creates projects that examine how personal and collective experiences are preserved, transformed, and reinterpreted over time. Jana participated in the PhotoArtDoc mentorship program in 2024 and the Do Art Together mentorship program in Warsaw in 2025.
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Hands Are Freezing is an ongoing project that emerged after the death of my father.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The title comes from the only words I heard from him after his death. In a dream, he said:\n\u201cHands are freezing.\u201d The phrase became a point of entry into reflections on memory,\nabsence, and the ways relationships continue to exist after someone is gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am unable to return to Belarus and was not present at either my father\u2019s cremation or the\nlater burial of his ashes. Much of my experience of loss unfolded through photographs,\nmessages, phone calls, and fragments of information received from a distance. The project\nbecame a way of navigating grief in a situation where traditional rituals of farewell were no\nlonger possible. The work brings together family photographs, fragments of text messages, digital traces, archival documents, and collages. Rather than treating the archive as a stable record of the\npast, I approach it as a space in which memory is constantly reassembled and transformed.\nInitially, the project focused on my father\u2019s archive, but over time working with these\nmaterials led me toward a broader investigation of memory, its fragmentation, and the ways\nit is reconstructed after loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the centre of the project are the ponds and water landscapes my father designed and built\nover many years. I often accompanied him to these sites, helping with small tasks or simply\nspending time beside him while he worked. Today, these places function both as traces of\nhis presence and as vessels of memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A significant part of my father\u2019s archive remains physically inaccessible to me, while other\nmaterials survive only as digital fragments. This condition of incompleteness shapes the\nstructure of the project itself. Through photography, collage, and archival research, I explore\nhow a person continues to exist through the traces they leave behind and how memory is\nformed from what remains.\n\nHands Are Freezing is conceived as a project that may exist in multiple forms, including\nexhibitions, an artist book, and a digital archival platform. The series presented here is not a\nfinished project, but rather one of the current configurations within an ongoing process of\nreassembling the archive and memory.

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