Vases in clay
The Living Space Within
2025
The boundary in my work is not a fixed line, but a conscious process - an event I move through. It is a fracture in which form loses its stability and begins to transform.
I create objects through an act of breaking, allowing cracks to become points of transition - spaces where opposites exist in tension rather than being separated. In this state, form begins to breathe; presence emerges, and meaning appears in the silence between them.
The two vessels in this installation are broken and reassembled using the Japanese technique of Kintsugi. The golden seams do not conceal or repair the damage - they acknowledge the fracture as a trace of transformation and make it an essential part of the object’s new identity.
For me, this process is a conscious act of encounter with each fracture - to break, to restore, and to look deeper. Inspired by the philosophy of Kintsugi, I see value not in perfection, but in experience, transformation, and the choices we make along the way.
LCDF thanks Anastasiia Biletska, independent curator, for her kind collaboration.
Larisa Zolotova is a Ukrainian ceramic artist and multidisciplinary practitioner.
She began her artistic journey in 2017 with painting and has been fully devoted to working with clay since 2018. In 2020, in her hometown of Odesa, she established ZOLA — a space for creativity, connection, and material exploration. Her path reflects a profound inner transformation from economist, teacher, and logistics professional to an artist working with ceramics as a medium of meaning, tactile research, and spatial awareness.
Larisa actively participates in international artistic residencies and collaborative projects, expanding her practice through dialogue and experimentation.
Her work embodies a soft aesthetic of organic, biomorphic forms, emerging at the intersection of ancient firing techniques and a philosophy grounded in love, presence, and meditation.