EX­hi­Bi­tion

SHIZUKA OKADA

Fig. is pleased to present an exhibition of ceramic artist Shizuka Okada. Born in 1987 in Gunma Prefecture, Okada approaches ceramic practice as if it were drawing, developing images and ideas through successive iterations of clay form. As the forms move from one stage to the next, the artist’s manual thought process leads to deviant contours and other imperfections. Emerging out of a negotiation between body, gravity, and material that continues until the very moment of their firing, the forms exhibit an acute tension between the intentional and the unintentional. This exhibition will present a new body of works centering on the idea and form of the hands.

FIG.

Fig. is an artist-run space founded in Kita-Otsuka in 2017. Organized on a project basis, its exhibition program features both local and international artists and is often developed in collaboration with other art spaces from Japan and abroad. Past exhibitions include David Ostrowski, “Leeres Wasser (Anti Drawings)” (2023); Umico Niwa, “My Life Inside a Shoe (the phantom cricket)” (2023), organized with XYZ collective; “Drawing Fever I: Narrative, on-going” (2022); Nicolás Guagnini and Shizuka Okada, “Interference” (2021), organized with Galerie Max Mayer; Hannah Weinberger “wedidntwanttoleave.live” (2020), curated by Fitzpatrick Gallery with the Performance Agency; Cobra, “The Museum” (2019); and Shizuka Okada, “Slender and Long My Whistle” (2018).