Alena Kakhanovich is a visual artist and photographer born in Belarus. Currently, she lives in Warsaw. She works on long-term visual projects bordering on photography, psychology, and art. In her work, she deals with issues related to transformation in times of crisis. She focuses to show processes happening in the inner worlds of people. The photos she makes reflect the poetry of melancholy, its magnetism, and its beauty.
Her work has been featured in numerous exhibitions and international festivals, including the Helsinki Photo Festival in Finland, the Kolga Photo Award in Tbilisi (Georgia), Month of Photography in Krakow (Poland). Moreover, she has exhibited her photographs in important art spaces such as the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Art (Japan), Center for Contemporary Art (Belarus), and several galleries in Europe such as Galerie Huit in Arles. Alena’s works are in the collection at the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Art in Japan.
