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Year: 2025
Material/Technique: Ceramic, Oil
Size: 12 × 11.5 × 4 cm
Edition: Unique
Signed:Included
About the Work
- Year
- 2025
- Material/Technique
- Ceramic, Oil
- Size
- 12 × 11.5 × 4 cm
- Edition
- Unique
- Signed
- Included
- Frame
- Not Included
- Work Certificate
- Not Set
- Category
- Sculpture
Work Details
Pottery, oil painting
In the past I used to play roles on-stage aspiring to become a professional ballerina.
It was as if to be affirmed, “you have a right to be here” while in role on the stage.
I integrate theatrical elements felt from daily life, into narratives based on ballet and theatrical plays or children’s tales.
The ceramic figures polished into existence as if to cast members of a theatre company, take shape as vessels for a role, and what used to just be a clod, is coerced into being special, while its texture still remains.
I explore the ways of being, by relating the hollow ceramics to empty humans as vessels for a role.
We still stand on this grand stage, playing a role, and one day will become special.
Testimonial
Emiri Nakada is an artist who is hard to come by, exploring the boundary between a role and the self using ceramics and video media, on her foundation of somatic sensations built through ballet. Her expressions that merge narrative and beauty of form, comparing theatrical structures to modern society, have both poetic sentiment and criticism; she is an artist whom I have great hopes for the future.
（Shinji Ohmaki）
Exhibition Information
- Past Exhibitions
- ARTISTS' FAIR KYOTO 202602.21.2026 - 03.01
Artist
artists
Born in 1997 in Tokyo. Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Department of Sculpture. Aiming to be a professional ballerina, she creates works using ceramics and CG/video based on her experience of playing roles on stage. Theatrical elements that can be felt from everyday life are incorporated into stories based on ballet, theatrical programs, children's stories, etc. They search for ways to be people by superimposing hollow ceramics and empty humans as containers for roles. ・Main exhibition history 2021 solo exhibition “Lullaby” (former movie theater, Tokyo) 2022 “TOKYO MIDTOWN AWARD 2022 Award Winning Works Exhibition” (Tokyo Midtown, Tokyo) 2022 “CAF Award 2022 Selected Works Exhibition” (Daikanyama Hillside Forum, Tokyo) 2023 “Black Room” (Ginza Tsutaya Bookstore, Tokyo) 2023 “WHITE ROOM” (WHAT CAFE, Tokyo) 2023 “Art Fair Beppu 2023" (Beppu Tourist Port, Oita) 2023 Solo Exhibition “How to Take Your Breath” (HIRO OKAMOTO, Tokyo) 2024 solo exhibition “God Bless You” (Twinkle Sculpture Festival, Tokyo) 2024 “ALLOS AND ERGON” (POOL SIDE GARELLY, Kanazawa) 2024 “Draw Lines & Shapes in My Maps” (T&Y Gallery, Los Angeles) 2025 solo exhibition “A PIECE OF CAKE” (MITSUKOSHI CONTEMPORARY, Tokyo) 2025 Roppongi Art Night Video Exhibition (Tokyo Midtown, Tokyo) ・Awards 2019 Ataka Award 2021 Mitsubishi Estate Award 2022 TOKYO MIDTOWN AWARD 2022 Grand Prix 2022 CAF Awards 2022 winners
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私はかってプロのバレリーナを目指し舞台上で役を演じていた。
舞台で役を演じている間はただ「ここに居て良い」と肯定されているようだった。
日常生活から感じられる演劇的な要素を、バレエや演劇の演目、童話などをベースとした物語に落とし込む。
劇団員をキャスティングするように練り上げられたセラミック像たちば“役の入れ物”として立ち現れ、ただの土塊だったはずのそれらは、その手触りを残したまま、特別になることを強いられる。
空洞なセラミックと役の入れ物としての空虚な人間たちを重ね合わせ、ひとの在り方を模索する。
私たちは今もこの大きな舞台に立ち、何かを演じ、そしていつしか特別になる。
In the past I used to play roles on-stage aspiring to become a professional ballerina.
It was as if to be affirmed, “you have a right to be here” while in role on the stage.
I integrate theatrical elements felt from daily life, into narratives based on ballet and theatrical plays or children’s tales.
The ceramic figures polished into existence as if to cast members of a theatre company, take shape as vessels for a role, and what used to just be a clod, is coerced into being special, while its texture still remains.
I explore the ways of being, by relating the hollow ceramics to empty humans as vessels for a role.
We still stand on this grand stage, playing a role, and one day will become special.