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Cyriopa Vessel

€677.00

Wheel thrown and hand sculpted in pigmented cobalt stoneware, Cyriopia is made by Ioulia Chante in Malta. Formed as a single piece and semi burnished with a brush, the vessel carries surreal, arachnoid features that explore phobias rooted in memory. Selected areas are glazed, and the piece is fired at 1260ºC, creating a surface where texture, colour, and form hold both tension and presence.

Each singular work carries its own provenance and the distinct voice of the crafter.

Wheel thrown and hand sculpted in pigmented cobalt stoneware, Cyriopia is made by Ioulia Chante in Malta. Formed as a single piece and semi burnished with a brush, the vessel carries surreal, arachnoid features that explore phobias rooted in memory. Selected areas are glazed, and the piece is fired at 1260ºC, creating a surface where texture, colour, and form hold both tension and presence.

Each singular work carries its own provenance and the distinct voice of the crafter.

 

  • Approximate measurements: 16 x 21 x 15 cm
    Made in Malta.

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  • Ioulia Chante (b. 1991) is an architect and ceramicist, and the founder of Babau Ceramics. Her practice spans wheel-throwing and sculpture, often taking shape through zoomorphic forms that blur the boundaries between human, animal, and monstrous bodies. These hybrid creatures inhabit a space between the familiar and the strange, functioning as allegories of vulnerability, desire, and transformation.

    Much like the monsters and animals found in myth and storytelling, her works act as mirrors—revealing hidden states of being and emotional truths that reflect the complexity of human nature while resisting fixed definition.

    Statement:

    My ceramic practice often takes shape through zoomorphic forms that blur the line between the human, the animal, and the monstrous. These hybrid creatures embody both the familiar and the strange, offering allegories of vulnerability, desire, and transformation. Much like monsters and animals in myth and storytelling, they serve as mirrors—revealing hidden states of being and emotional truths that describe human nature and resist easy definition.

    Clay, with its tactile immediacy, becomes a medium for giving these creatures physical presence. Their bodies, sometimes playful and at other times unsettling, move between sculpture and function, embodying an ambiguity that invites reflection. In this way, animals in my work are more than subjects: they are vessels for emotional storytelling, embodiments of fragility and resilience, and companions that ask us to confront what we fear, long for, or cannot fully name.

    Read our interview with her.

 
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