Alissa Volchkova
MA work
MA work
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The Liquid Series, Alissa Volchkova 2016
ceramics
Photographer: Sylvain Deleu -
The Liquid Series, Alissa Volchkova 2016
ceramics
Photographer: Sylvain Deleu -
The Liquid Series, Alissa Volchkova 2016
ceramics
Photographer: Sylvain Deleu
The Beautiful Unperfect
My work combines the use of ceramic and glass mediums. I am fascinated by their similar and contradictory characteristics of being solid and static, and at the same time liquid and malleable. The notion of movement is essential for me. I am trying to crystallise and decompose it by revisiting traditional industrial methods of production – such as mould making – and revealing their unique aspects by disrupting and breaking these rigid, perfect and predictable processes. I have to find a dialogue with the material by letting it express itself and without forcing it – which means to accept a part of its unpredictability. I have to adapt to it, but also to control it at the right moment.
Info
Info
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MA Degree
School
School of Humanities
Programme
MA Ceramics & Glass, 2016
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Contact
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+44 (0)7889 674856
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The process defines my work rather than the result. I am experimenting and revisiting the industrial processes of mould making – that I mostly use, and trying to reveal their unique aspects. I like the paradoxical idea of turning the rigid, repetitive modes of production into something unique, irregular and unpredictable, in order to make exclusive objects in series.
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Degrees
- MA Interior and Spatial Design, Chelsea College of Art & Design, 2010; BA Interior Architecture and Product Design, Ecole Camondo, Paris, France, 2008; Graphic Arts, ESAG Penninghen, Paris, 2005
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Experience
- Interior architect, AB Consult Group, Moscow, 2010–13; Internship, Gilles & Boissier, Paris, 2009 ; Internship, Dmitry Dolgoy Studio, Moscow, 2008 ; Internship, Reymond Langton Yacht Design Studio, London, 2007 ; Internship, Jean-Rémy Couradette, Paris, 2006
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Awards
- Second Prize, Kombi Design, Paris, 2009
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Publications
- Alissa Volchkova, The liquid Series, Designboom, 20 June 2016