Hanna Miadzvedzeva: Selected works, 2019-2024
I am a visual artist, but generally, I combine sculptural form and ceramic technology in my work. For me, abstract sculpture is a distinctive, unlike anything else, formal language that responds directly to our sensory perception. The theme of self-perception in the natural space runs through my creative pursuits.
Since childhood, I was used to having long walks in nature, and to this moment, these walks remain for me the best way to return to the dialogue with myself. Observing how nature lives according to its global laws, you can look at all your problems in a detached way, re-evaluating their importance. During these meditation sessions, I pay attention not only to the large spaces that open up to the eye but also to the smallest details. My sculptures are kind of meditative objects that capture my composite images of landscapes, but not representations of specific places. Moreover, in these objects it is difficult to tell what scale has been applied – whether it is a view of the roundness of forested land seen from an airplane window or a reference to the shape of a lichen-covered rock seen directly underfoot in the nearby forest.
The immediate technological part of the work is also in a sense, meditative, as in such complex production processes, which I choose, not only a meticulous approach to the object construction, composition and consistency of materials are important, but also a very fine-tuned state of mind, the ability to control my breath and mood. When creating a new piece, my mind enters a “creational trance”. Ceramics, which in itself is the embodiment of naturalness, feels to me the most alive and receptive material, capable of translating my experiences as no other material can do.
Landscape series, 2021-2024
Air series, 2019-2021
Landscapes exhibition, 2023
Captions
- Autumn Landscape, 2023, stoneware, 26x26x26 cm, Photo Didzis Grodzs
Twilight Landscape, 2023, tinted stoneware, 30x29x31 cm, Photo Didzis Grodzs
Winter Landscape, 2021, porcelain, 14x26x29 cm, Photo Didzis Grodzs
Rain cradle, 2021, tinted stoneware, glaze, 26x18x22 cm, Photo Hanna Miadzvedzeva
Foggy Landscape, 2023, stoneware, 25x28x28 cm, Photo Didzis Grodzs
INTRO – I, 2020, stoneware, glazes, 25x28x28 cm, Photo Hanna Miadzvedzeva
Rainy day, 2024, tinted stoneware, glaze, 32x39x39 cm, Photo Didzis Grodzs
March, 2024, stoneware, 27x24x24 cm, Photo Hanna Miadzvedzeva
November, 2024, stoneware, 106x71x67 cm, Photo Hanna Miadzvedzeva
Structure in red, 2021, stoneware, glaze, 26x18x22 cm, Photo Hanna Miadzvedzeva - Cloudy with clearings, 2019, porcelain, 31x28x28 cm, Photo Hanna Miadzvedzeva
Morphology II, 2021, tinted porcelain, 12x28x29 cm, Photo Hanna Miadzvedzeva
Morphology, 2020, tinted porcelain, 14x26x27 cm, Photo Hanna Miadzvedzeva
Echo, 2019, porcelain, 30x23x24 cm, Photo Hanna Miadzvedzeva
Mycelium, 2019, porcelain, 18x15x15 cm, Photo Hanna Miadzvedzeva - Landscapes, 2023, Solo exhibition at the Rothko Museum, Daugavpils. Photos by Didzis Grodzs
