galleryemilia ochkovaBG/EN

series / collection · spatial work

passage

period2024–2026

works4

processslip-cast porcelain · glaze-fired at 1170°C · needle-felted wool

scale3D-printed resin human figures

Passage begins with a material accident. In 2024, a porcelain bowl was deformed and damaged during firing. Rather than being discarded, the interrupted form was continued with needle-felted wool.

From this first object, a series of four works developed, bringing the hardness and fragility of porcelain into contact with the softness of wool. Small 3D-printed resin human figures introduce another scale and transform the vessel from an object into a territory.

Each work explores a different relationship between interior and exterior, support and passage, wholeness and interruption. Passage follows how damage can become the beginning of a new world—a space that can be inhabited, traversed, and mentally walked through.

01

Passage I

The originating work in the series: the interrupted porcelain form is continued through needle-felted wool.

year
2024–2026
dimensions
28 × 36 × 38 cm (h × w × d)
materials
slip-cast porcelain, glaze-fired at 1170°C; needle-felted wool; 3D-printed resin human figures

02

Passage II

The wool form passes through the porcelain openings, linking interior and exterior space.

year
2026
dimensions
30 × 20 × 15 cm (h × w × d)
materials
slip-cast porcelain and assembled porcelain elements, glaze-fired at 1170°C; needle-felted wool; 3D-printed resin human figure

03

Passage III

The vertical vessel becomes a support and passage for a soft line that continually changes direction.

year
2026
dimensions
35 × 22 × 11 cm (h × w × d)
materials
slip-cast porcelain and assembled porcelain elements, glaze-fired at 1170°C; needle-felted wool; 3D-printed resin human figure

04

Passage IV

The porcelain inner element, wrapped in needle-felted wool, remains an independent movable part placed inside the bowl.

year
2026
dimensions
bowl: Ø 26 × 12 cm; inner element: 18 × 18 × 7 cm (w × d × h)
materials
slip-cast and hand-altered porcelain with a porcelain inner element, glaze-fired at 1170°C; needle-felted wool

poetic fragments

Passing through language

He wrote into his own footsteps

what he could not walk through.

In the quiet of fragile hope,

I feel the tremor of tender sweetness.

I gather the scattered gazes

and close them into silence.

Poetry and spatial form develop as parallel ways of moving through the same concerns — movement, interruption, fragility, and the possibility of continuation.

temporary spatial configurations

Relationships in motion

The individual objects can change their relationships and form temporary spatial configurations.

Temporary configuration of Passage objects
configuration I · dimensions variable
Temporary configuration of Passage objects
configuration II · dimensions variable