Anastasia goncharova is a multidisciplinary artist and art theorist working at the intersection of film, textile, photography, and installation. With a foundation in both the arts and humanities, her practice combines critical inquiry with artistic expression, examining how our worldview and identity are shaped by social structures and proposing resistance through sensory depth, attentiveness, and reflection.

Coming of Age is an archival-footage video essay investigating the evolution of the coming-of-age genre in the environment of increasing Nietzschean nihilism.

It was orignally published by Sydney University Press in our affiliated journal https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/Cinegraphia/issue/view/1380