Yan Chmarau

Yan Chmarau (b. in Mahiljou, Belarus)

Working across digital and analogue media, his work explores the circulation of found material - browsing, collecting, and archiving fragments from abandoned social media profiles, online marketplaces, alongside transient objects of everyday life. Drawing from the Post‑Soviet digital lore, his work reframes how intimate, mundane and contradictory fragments of life circulate, decay, and resurface. Between concept and ‘vibe’, his practice unfolds within a state of digital decadence: a system of projections and chance relations where digital waste becomes both material and a form of knowing.