Odyssey
The Odyssey exhibition marks an important milestone in Ekaterina Aristova's career. The inaugural work, Odyssey, Song of the Sirens (2024), led Aristova to reread Homer and, during a stay in Vallauris, a land of ceramists, swallows and Picasso's heritage, at Côte d'Azur in the summer of 2025, to create her first series of hand-shaped and hand-painted raw clay ceramics. Each piece transposes a Homeric episode while resonating as a metaphor for the inner journey: the ordeal, the quest, and the return to oneself.
Ekaterina Aristova, Odyssey, Sirens Song 210x170 cm, oil and charcoal on linen canvas, Paris 2024
The Odyssey series is part of a broader reflection, between history and myth. The Odyssey, the story of a world marked by the Trojan War, enters into dialogue here with our present, which is rife with conflict. Aristova connects this cyclical time to a philosophical and psychological reading.
Plate "Labyrinth", bowl "Calypso", vase "Volcano", Odyssey series by Ekaterina Aristova, 2025
The exhibition will present for the first time the conceptual and symbolic ceramic work "Archetypes of the Unconscious", which reveals engraved signs of internal cartography, referring to Jung and the archetypes of the unconscious developed by Ekaterina Aristova.
The Odyssey exhibition by Ekaterina Aristova will be presented in September in Paris at a private event. Subscribe to the newsletter to receive the invitation to the exhibition.