BIOVictoria Dego is a ceramic artist based in Moscow. She graduated from the International Design School with a focus on Interior Design. Victoria has experience in graphic design, interior and furniture design and event decoration. In 2018 she began working with clay and giving master classes on ceramics. In 2021 she completed a ceramic art residency at Get Art Fit School, which was the starting point of Victoria's work with porcelain and her transition from design to easel art. She has participated in international and Russian exhibitions and competitions, including "1000 Vases" during Paris Design Week, the International Contemporary Art Fair Cosmoscow, and the St. Petersburg Art Fair 1703. The participant of the shortlist in the "Studio Design" nomination of the IV All-Russian Competition-Biennale of Object Design “Invented and Made in Russia”from the All-Russian Museum of Decorative Arts. Her work has been featured in magazines such as INTERIOR + DESIGN, AD Magazine, SALON Interior, Mydecor, and Sector Luxe. |
ARTIST STATEMENTI came to ceramics through my work with interiors. In my design practice, I like to put things in order, to complement and interact with the living space. I try to slow down time and allow myself to be in the present moment. In working with ceramics I immerse myself in a meditative process, creating thin sheets of clay, cutting them like paper, folding them, gluing them, shaping them. The "Silentium" project is a desire to stop and "decompose thoughts". The "Unity" and "Moments" series is an interaction with porcelain, like a fabric, which gives me the opportunity to think of collages with matching elements. What fascinates me about porcelain is the delicacy of the texture, the weightlessness. The quality of the material combines with the main idea of my work, which is lightness, the sensation of the moment. The objects in the "Ceremony" series were inspired by memories of home, a certain permanence of tradition and preserved domestic ceremonies, which, in turn, give tranquillity and a sense of security. As in the case of interior design, in ceramics I continue to organize, sift out the unnecessary, to "reassemble". In this way, my ceramic works become the final piece in a single interior ensemble. |