My artistic practice centers around photography, expanded through experimental print practices, and ceramics. I explore the human experience through material and conceptual transformation. Literary references often frame my projects, adding narrative and emotional depth. These transformations—both physical and symbolic—raise questions about identity, memory, and time.
Eva Vasilyeva is a Slovenia-based artist with Russian-Ukrainian roots whose practice moves between photography, printmaking, and ceramics. Her work explores cycles of transformation, memory, and identity, often weaving literary references and metaphor into tactile, poetic forms.
After a career in creative direction, she turned to photography full-time in 2012. Since 2021, she has expanded her practice into the visual arts, combining traditional and experimental printmaking with clay-based processes. Her works have been presented in solo and group exhibitions in France, Italy, and Slovenia, as well as in photography festivals and artist publications.
Vasilyeva was an artist-in-residence at Center Rog, the main creative hub of Slovenia, where she began merging photographic imagery with ceramic surfaces. This ongoing exploration connects material transformation with personal and collective memory, revealing how reinvention—of matter, meaning, and self—can become an act of resilience and renewal.
Eva Vasilyeva is a talented photographer with high aesthetic criteria and a restless spirit. Eva’s series is excellent in every way and, believe me, I have said this only a few times. Images have high technical and artistic quality, the atmosphere is unique, diptychs are successfully structured, and conceptually there is more than one interpretive level. The personal character of her work is obvious and becomes its most crucial feature increasing its authenticity.
Eva has the gift, the intuition, and the knowledge to create a remarkable personal work and make it widely known if she continues shooting with the same passion, leave herself to be visible in her work (I speak metaphorically), and continue to invest in storytelling as regards the building of series. Overall, my engagement with Eva’s work was an exciting and pleasant experience. Be sure that I will show her project to my students for many reasons. I wish Eva Vasilyeva good luck, and I’m looking forward to seeing more from her in the future.
eva.vasilyeva.photography@gmail.com
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Linkedin @evavasilyeva
During the residency, Eva expanded her ongoing anti-war project Where Have All the Flowers Gone? by creating a new ceramic piece – a vase or an urn, depending on what we carry.
Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2024
L Galerie, Solo exhibition, May 2023
Paris, France
Galerie La Villa Des Arts, Group show, September 2023
Paris, France