Abstract
The conceptual dichotomies «masculine-feminine», «Self-Other» structure our reality by leaving out any hybrid phenomenon and, therefore, foment inequalities. In the present essay we analyse the expressive strategies that are used in the documentaries ‘Art of Being Yourself’, ‘The Word’ and ‘Vidimo-Nevidimo’ by Kseniia Khrabrykh, an emerging Russian artist who challenges the dichotomous cognitive schemes, creates a symbolic space of encounter with Otherness and thus promotes empathetic and tolerant attitudes towards the inherent social diversity. We start by approaching the theories on the role of alterity in the construction of identity (including perspectives of postcolonial feminisms and queer studies) with the aim to corroborate the presence of its principles in the three mentioned projects. Next, we focus on defining the conceptual discourse of each work, the format of its visual narrative, its way of evoking the problems treated and the level of its interactivity.
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