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Laguta Nina
Flower Bear
Clay, glaze, pigments, glass, 2025
Blue Metal Corset Bear
Clay, glaze, pigments, glass, metal, 2024
Bear with a Chair Inside
Clay, glaze, pigments, 2025
Quieter, quieter, be more modest.
When we were in 3rd grade, the boy sitting next to me carved toy cars into the desk with a pen, and the teacher said:
“Girls, take note: don’t grow your hair long, don’t wear ponytails, a man could grab you by it and rape you.”
I am a machine. A machine can run with broken parts.
And when they carve me into the desk with a pen, they forget about many of those parts.
But in the back seat lie teddy bears.
In childhood, I was given teddy bears as rewards for pain — after illnesses, surgeries, when I was left alone, or after fights.
Nina Laguta (b. 1994, Nova Kakhovka) is a multidisciplinary artist primarily working with ceramics and textiles.
Her practice explores how trauma manifests through the physical and mental body, thus revealing the fragility of human existence. The core themes of her work include the sensorial aspects of life and the archaeology of memory. She lives and works in Kyiv.
