Open the heart of De Raouza.
De Raouza project was born in 2023 as an opportunity and necessity to continue the work of our grandmother, Raouza Bagautdinova.
When working on objects, touching clay, we always try to come to the natural. To feel our belonging, get closer to the reliefs and colors, hear the voice and heartbeat of nature.
« My ceramic path started with photography. When I was a student at the academy of photography, I learned to see the world through documentation and structure, to look for connections and capture them.
It has always been important for me not just an image, but the whole process: to explore a topic, to live it through, to capture the subtle layers, to record observations, to collect a personal archive from it.
Over time, I realized that this logic — research / photography / documentation/ archive – has become universal for everything I do.
So it is in De Raouza — first the topic appears, sometimes the image, sometimes the word. Then I try out the material, look for the shape, sketch, capture the process. Each object becomes a document of my research, and as a result, it becomes part of the archive.
After creating a particular series, I continue to find traces of it in articles, films, and conversations.
Once started, ceramic research is never completed, but growing, forming new branches. »
It has always been important for me not just an image, but the whole process: to explore a topic, to live it through, to capture the subtle layers, to record observations, to collect a personal archive from it.
Over time, I realized that this logic — research / photography / documentation/ archive – has become universal for everything I do.
So it is in De Raouza — first the topic appears, sometimes the image, sometimes the word. Then I try out the material, look for the shape, sketch, capture the process. Each object becomes a document of my research, and as a result, it becomes part of the archive.
After creating a particular series, I continue to find traces of it in articles, films, and conversations.
Once started, ceramic research is never completed, but growing, forming new branches. »
Karina Vazhenina
Creator
De Raouza
De Raouza
