a piece of cake

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.

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）