BIO
LORA ZYUZINA
My practice explores freedom of speech, censorship, and self-restriction through the visual language of street art.
I approach street inscriptions as a form of urban archaeology — a way to read personal stories, collective anxieties, and social events embedded in the city’s surfaces.
I am interested in spontaneous texts left by ordinary people: fragments of statements, reactions, comments, and counter-comments that transform urban walls into dynamic spaces of communication. Although I have never practiced street art myself, I perceive it as an encrypted archive of urban life, where private narratives and political realities coexist.
Translating these observations into ceramics, I combine text with textures reminiscent of eroded walls and architectural surfaces. Through layering, erasure, and fragmentation, my works create dense semantic fields where language becomes both a form of expression and a mechanism of concealment. The objects function as sites where speech
is preserved, distorted, or silenced — reflecting the balance between the need for self-definition and the forces that
restrict it.
I approach street inscriptions as a form of urban archaeology — a way to read personal stories, collective anxieties, and social events embedded in the city’s surfaces.
I am interested in spontaneous texts left by ordinary people: fragments of statements, reactions, comments, and counter-comments that transform urban walls into dynamic spaces of communication. Although I have never practiced street art myself, I perceive it as an encrypted archive of urban life, where private narratives and political realities coexist.
Translating these observations into ceramics, I combine text with textures reminiscent of eroded walls and architectural surfaces. Through layering, erasure, and fragmentation, my works create dense semantic fields where language becomes both a form of expression and a mechanism of concealment. The objects function as sites where speech
is preserved, distorted, or silenced — reflecting the balance between the need for self-definition and the forces that
restrict it.
Lora Zyuzina (b. 1985, Russia) is a ceramic sculptor based in Paris.
For many years, she lived and worked in Moscow as a lead fashion designer, developing prêt-à-porter collections for brands focused on aviation-inspired aesthetics, collaborating with manufacturing facilities in Italy and Turkey. This background shaped her approach to material, construction, and multilayered visual systems.
In 2021, she shifted her artistic practice entirely to ceramics. Working with clay, she treats material as a carrier of memory, where layers accumulate and traces of the past remain visible.
Her sculptural language is rooted in observation, transformation, and the tension between fragility and resistance.
Since 2024, Zyuzina Lora has been living and working in Paris, continuing her research at the intersection of ceramics, urban space, and text..
For many years, she lived and worked in Moscow as a lead fashion designer, developing prêt-à-porter collections for brands focused on aviation-inspired aesthetics, collaborating with manufacturing facilities in Italy and Turkey. This background shaped her approach to material, construction, and multilayered visual systems.
In 2021, she shifted her artistic practice entirely to ceramics. Working with clay, she treats material as a carrier of memory, where layers accumulate and traces of the past remain visible.
Her sculptural language is rooted in observation, transformation, and the tension between fragility and resistance.
Since 2024, Zyuzina Lora has been living and working in Paris, continuing her research at the intersection of ceramics, urban space, and text..
ARTIST STATEMENT
BIO
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIONS
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XVI International ceramic biennial of Manises, Museo de Ceramica de Manises, Valencia, Spain
2024
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International Ceramic Competition of l'Alcora – CICA, Museu de Ceramica de l’Alcora, Valencia, Spain
2024
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3rd Prize Winner 22nd Esplugues Angelina Alós International Ceramic Biennia, Barcelona, Spain
2025-2026
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CERCO 2025, International Contemporary Ceramics Festival, Zaragoza, Spain
2025-2026
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«Walls» , Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, NPAK, Yerevan, Armenia
2024
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«Spray», 24, rue de Penthièvre, 75008, Paris , France
2025
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III All-Russian Competition-Biennale of Object Design,All-Russian Decorative Art Museum, Moscow
2022
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«BIRD MILK», GET ART FIT, Winzavod, Moscow
2022
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«Find the inner Mongolia», part 2, ARBUZZ gallery, Moscow
2023
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Cosmoscow, SUBSTANCE, Moscow
2023
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«House as a phenomenon», MILLIART gallery, Moscow
2023
RESIDENCIES
EXHIBITIONS
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IV All-Russian Competition-Biennale of Object Design,All-Russian Decorative Art Museum, Moscow
2024
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«Nostalgia», Liza Fetissova gallery, Paris, France
2025
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Art Athina, SeriEYE galerie, Greece
2025
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«Les Murs Parlent» , Ecomusée du Grand-Orly Seine Bièvre, Fresnes, France
2025
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Maison Leleu x Galerie SeriEye, Paris, France
2025
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«Celestial», Galerie 27 Concept, Paris, France
2026
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Internftional online school GET ART FIT, Art Project Residency, Moscow
2022
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Internftional online school GET ART FIT, Clay Residency, Moscow
2022
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L'AiR Arts & Cité Falguière Residents , Paris
2026
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«À l’abris des regards», L galerie, Paris , France
2025
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XVII International Biennale of Artistic Ceramics of Aveiro, Portugal
2025-2026
EDUCATION
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2025 – Present
2017
Master’s Degree (M2), École supérieure d'art et design Le Havre-Rouen (ESADHaR), Rouen, France
Stroganov Academy of Design and Applied Arts, special art classes in «Ceramic design», Moscow
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Moscow State Technical University of A.N. Kosygin, «Technology. Design. Art.» Master’s degree in «Arts & Design», Moscow
2006-2012