IRINA RAZUMOVSKAYA
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Неорусский концепт-стор с уникальной подборкой локальных техник, авторов и традиций
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Irina Razumovskaya is a London-based artist whose work explores themes of female identity, cultural memory, and diaspora. Rooted in material and form, her hand-built ceramic sculptures weave historical references into objects that embody resilience and reimagine decay as a site of
beauty and transformation.
Razumovskaya’s practice unfolds at the intersection of architecture and nature. Her works recall fragments of imagined cities, archaeological ruins, or geological strata, yet they are never purely descriptive. Instead, they suggest a condition of survival — structures that persist through fracture, surfaces that reveal time’s erosive touch while retaining an inner strength.
Central to her process is the balance between control and unpredictability. Razumovskaya builds with deliberate clarity, often invoking the precision of constructivist design. Yet she welcomes chance in the kiln, where glazes, clays, and minerals undergo chemical reactions that cannot be fully anticipated. The resulting surfaces peel, crack, or melt, transforming the sculptures into material records of resilience, bearing the marks of both intention and surrender.
This dynamic carries personal resonance. Raised in Russia, a country deeply shaped by traditions of censorship and control, Razumovskaya reflects on how such systems have imprinted themselves on values, choices, and creative expression. Her sculptures, with their oscillation between structure and collapse, can be read as visceral responses to these inherited constraints. At the same time, they speak to broader diasporic experiences of dislocation and adaptation, where cultural memory must be continually re-formed across borders and generations.
In this way, Razumovskaya’s art reframes decay not as an end but as a generative state — a means of transformation and renewal. Her works invite us to contemplate the fragile equilibrium between permanence and impermanence, control and chance, personal identity and collective history. They
remind us that even in moments of fracture, there is the possibility of resilience, and within ruins, the potential for beauty.
beauty and transformation.
Razumovskaya’s practice unfolds at the intersection of architecture and nature. Her works recall fragments of imagined cities, archaeological ruins, or geological strata, yet they are never purely descriptive. Instead, they suggest a condition of survival — structures that persist through fracture, surfaces that reveal time’s erosive touch while retaining an inner strength.
Central to her process is the balance between control and unpredictability. Razumovskaya builds with deliberate clarity, often invoking the precision of constructivist design. Yet she welcomes chance in the kiln, where glazes, clays, and minerals undergo chemical reactions that cannot be fully anticipated. The resulting surfaces peel, crack, or melt, transforming the sculptures into material records of resilience, bearing the marks of both intention and surrender.
This dynamic carries personal resonance. Raised in Russia, a country deeply shaped by traditions of censorship and control, Razumovskaya reflects on how such systems have imprinted themselves on values, choices, and creative expression. Her sculptures, with their oscillation between structure and collapse, can be read as visceral responses to these inherited constraints. At the same time, they speak to broader diasporic experiences of dislocation and adaptation, where cultural memory must be continually re-formed across borders and generations.
In this way, Razumovskaya’s art reframes decay not as an end but as a generative state — a means of transformation and renewal. Her works invite us to contemplate the fragile equilibrium between permanence and impermanence, control and chance, personal identity and collective history. They
remind us that even in moments of fracture, there is the possibility of resilience, and within ruins, the potential for beauty.
London, UK
Palaty is a gallery of local contemporary design and art
Design Bureau LLC, INN 7810689279, OGRN 1177847191477, Legal address: 197022, St. Petersburg, Karpovka River embankment, 20, lit. V, room. 1-N, room 4-N
Palaty is a gallery of local contemporary design and art
Design Bureau LLC, INN 7810689279, OGRN 1177847191477, Legal address: 197022, St. Petersburg, Karpovka River embankment, 20, lit. V, room. 1-N, room 4-N