What connects Alyona's works is their texture. Alyona Mukhina is an artist who has been creating highly textured sculptural objects from clay for over 10 years.
For Alyona, clay is a material without a definitive form. She avoids traditional glazes, instead using clay mixed with fragments of already fired ceramic shards. This approach not only strengthens the clay but also embodies the concept of rebirth—the material is temporarily borrowed from reality and can eventually return to it.
Alyona captures the moment of reconstruction. The presented series focuses on images as frozen actions, emphasizing the absence of fixed form.
The Logs series was created to evoke a sense of warmth and to incorporate nature as an integral element of the work.
The cracking texture further reinforces the themes of rebirth and impermanence, offering a tactile reference to the interplay of action and resistance.