'Masaomi Yasunaga: 記憶の足跡 |Traces of Memory' at the ICA Miami

Currently on view, the ICA Miami presents 'Traces of Memory' the first major US museum exhibition of works by Masaomi Yasunaga. Emotive, highly textured and otherworldly, Yasunaga’s art open up new possibilities for his chosen medium, interpreting modern avant-garde ceramics with a radically contemporary approach. This exhibition comprises recent works and a site-specific installation, highlighting the dynamic interdisciplinarity of Yasunaga’s innovative approach to material transformation.

Yasunaga was trained by Satoru Hoshino, a third generation proponent of the Sodeisha movement, which sought to innovate new techniques and sculptural forms eschewing the functionality and aesthetics of traditional folk art. Yasunaga creates ceramics using a traditional Tebineri method, coil-building by hand; in lieu of clay, he uses only glazes, and unconventional mixtures of glaze and minerals, rocks, metals, and glass powders. To preserve the forms during firing, Yasunaga buries them in sand or unrefined porcelain within large kilns. Once fired, the resulting forms are removed from layers of material, a process the artist likens to archaeological excavation.

Find out more via the ICA Miami.

This studio visit was filmed ahead of 'Looking Afar / 遠くを見る' the artist's exhibtion at Lisson Gallery New York in 2022.

Film credits: quomunelab co.ltd
Director: Takahiro Aoki
Director of Photography, Edit: Shinya Kitamura
Production Manager: Mizuki Kariwa
Editor, Subtitles: Naoki Kotaka, Atsushi Hamanaka
Thanks: Marie Sasago, Ayaka Hatakoshi, Yasushi Amano