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Masha Lam is a multidisciplinary artist focused on the problems of interaction between artificial and natural environments. She creates ceramic sculptures and reliefs. At first glance, harmless images — a moth, a caterpillar, a mouse, pruners, a flower bud, rubber gloves — tell the story of man's relationship with nature and other people, the hybridization of society, consumerism and appropriation, using the image of a garden and a gardener as a metaphor for life in an enclosed space.

Currently based in St. Petersburg.

I like to create ceramics that imitate natural objects, household items, and living beings. In my practice, figurative art is used to convey a specific story. It's like an illustration where the narrative context is important. When individual reliefs are combined, they take on a new meaning. Ambivalence and awkward tension are achieved not through alteration or distortion, but through the combination of real objects and characters. The same object evokes contrasting emotions, and ideally, it leaves you feeling off-balance. For example: a caterpillar, which is not the most pleasant image for many people, gets a significant size and all the attributes of a pet, such as soft pillows and bows. The worlds and characters I create are based on nature, which is contradictory and visually appealing. This duality is also evident in other recurring themes, such as nature/technology, natural/artificial, and collective/personal, which I use to explore the ideas of spiritual and physical evolution, the coexistence of humanity with nature, and the realities of our rapidly changing world.