DARIA.IA
CERAMIC ARTIST

Hello! My name is Daria Iaromenok and I am an artist.

Since 2016, I have been actively working in the field of contemporary art and I am trying to prove with every work that ceramics is not only clay and traditional crafts.

Ceramics is about people, their life, their world, their communication.

Short Bio

Born in 1993 in Moscow. After finishing school, I entered the Stroganov Academy of Art, Applied Arts and Industry at the Art Ceramics department. Because only ceramics combined the color, shape and tactility that I needed. I got an excellent academic base and defended myself for a bachelor's degree in 2015.

After that, I took a year off and finished courses in contemporary art at Moscow Museum of Modern Art in 2016. Because I wanted to learn to talk about the actual with the help of my beloved medium.

Having understood, as it seems to me, my vector in contemporary art, I again returned to the Academy and defended my master's thesis in the direction of functional design in ceramics in 2019. Because I can and want to change the subject environment.

SELECTED WORKS

So, in my professional activity, there are two areas: contemporary art and product design.
Here I want to show the first.

It includes collaboration projects with viewers and objects made by me personally.

"Look into the sky"
Porcelain, overglaze painting | 2014
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Dish "look into the sky" from the series "see the sun" (presentation of the full series in 2020). Based on the expression used figuratively: to see the sun means to live. Cloudless heights against the backdrop of urban skyscrapers is designed to attract one's eyes and remind the viewer of his constant companion,
sometimes lost in the bustle of the day. Perhaps this endless, eternal sky can help to survive the difficulties that somehow arise in the life of everyone.
So it works with me, at least.

"Portrait of times"
Chamotte clay, colored glazes and pigments | 2015
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Work, the creation of which took half a year of my life and the desire to bring together in a single object a primitive culture (represented by the Perm animal style) and modern (represented by "buffs" - repainted illegal inscriptions).

32 plates mounted between themselves on bolts. The height of the walls is 220 cm, the width is from 50 to 70 cm. Inside you can (or even should) to go.


"Presence / absence"
Red clay, matt glazes and oxides | 2018
Аrt-residency "Nickel: Polar day"
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A joint project with photographer Ekaterina Zhingel, made at the Nikel art residence in the summer of 2018. We sealed the city empty and cut this void with bricks. At the exhibition, any visitor could pick up one brick as a keepsake, leaving his signature in return. So the empty city in the photographs was filled with the evidences of the people living in it.

Maps won't help much if you want to learn something about the country. Okay, you can see a lot, big cities, main routes, rivers and all. But there is still a huge empty space in between these key spots you know nothing about.

Small towns look alike due to the same architectural and urban planning ideas; one might actually think they are identical twins. Although there is one thing that makes the difference. That's people. People make the town / city / settlement alive, unique and functioning as opposed to fictional.

The Presence / Absence project is focused on a human factor. The installation makes cold abstract photography meet the handcrafted ceramic object made by artists' and locals' collaboration. Photos of Absence show desolate Nikel landscapes. The brick line called Presence changes the whole picture overnight.

Every person is entitled to take away any fragment of the line if they want leaving an autograph instead. That's the way to be a part of presence.


"Still life"
White and beige clay, colorless glaze | 2018
Аrt-residency "Nickel: Polar night"
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Do you look for the windows of your house when you return home in the evening? Do you rejoice when you see the light in them?

Silent Life is an installation of more than 40 ceramic "apartments". Each apartment is a workpiece animated by my assistants.

How it was? - I prepared the same clay "boxes", without one wall, and invited the children to a master class. The task that each young artist faced was to create from this box the room of his dreams, the most comfortable and beautiful place for him.
Rules? - no. You will find rooms without a single table, all dotted with pillows; rooms with a bunch of cats and kittens; a room with a huge bookcase; a room with a window on the wall ... What did not come up!
Conditions? - make at least one tiny slotted window. According to my idea, in the final installation, a candle was placed inside each house, designed to fill the work with living light.

The light was to unite. And how is it without light when it's a polar night in the yard?)

The result exceeded all expectations. The project is filled with incredible warmth, movingness and coziness.


"I will think about it tomorrow"
Ceramic tiles, foto decol | 2018-2019
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Another joint project with photographer Ekaterina Zhingel. We speak about the theme of artificially broken thinking. There are controversial concepts, ideas, slogans in one head. Our perception of the world is cracked because of abundance of information. We try to recreate the whole image but we can not. It`s like somebody hit us in the back of our heads and broke our perception of the reality.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Exhibition activity is one of the main directions of my work.

When showing projects, I understand whether I managed to convey my thoughts and where I want to develop further. An equally important goal is to communicate with the audience and get a response from them.
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Group
2019 - Moscow Museum Of Modern Art (MMOMA) - "Workshop 20'19: Dysmorphophobia" (Moscow)
2019 -MMOMA - "Rub the nose of a bronze dog" (Moscow)
2019 - State Darwin Museum - "Borshevik Factory" (Moscow)
2019 - Creative Center "Beginning" - "Internal Ecology: οiκος" (Tolyatti)
2019 - Vadim Sidur Museum - "It drives me crazy" (Moscow)
2018 - Bogorodskoye Gallery - City Archive (Moscow)
2018 - Belyaevo Gallery - Signs of the Times (Moscow)
2017 - MMOMA - "Workshop 2017. Where no one dreams: from sacred geography to no-place" (Moscow)
2017 - ArtPlay - "Make it new" (Moscow)
2017 - City Art Gallery - "Revision" (Kimry)
2016 - Moscow City - "Moscow Architecture. Design and Aesthetics" (Moscow)
2016 - All-Russian exhibition "Youth of Russia" (Moscow)
2016 - XXXVI Youth Exhibition of Moscow Artists' Union of Russia (Moscow)
2014 - International Festival "Art Ceramics" (Gzhel)
2013 - XXII Moscow Youth Exhibition

Personal
2019 - Christensen Gallery - "Still life" (Kjollefjord, Norway)
2019 - Bogorodskoye Gallery - "I Will Think About It Tomorrow" (Moscow)
2019 - Museum of the Borderlands - "Still life" (Kirkenes, Norway)
2019 - Consulate General of the Russian Federation in Norway -"Still life" (Kirkenes).
2019 - Salt Restaurant - "Still life" (Kirkenes, Norway)
2018 - Center "The Second School" - "Still Life" (Nickel)
2018 - Center "The Second School" - "Presence-Absence" (Nickel)
Art-residencies
2018 - Art-residency "Nickel" - summer session "Polar day" (Nickel, Murmansk region)
2018 - Art-residency "Nickel" - winter session "Polar night" (Nickel, Murmansk region)


Сontacts
Thank you for visiting my site! Hope it was interesting for you.
I am always open for cooperations and interesting projects, just contact me in any comfortable way.
Write me: d.iaromenok@gmail.com
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