46. MASAOMI YASUNAGA - A SPACE BETWEEN HOLE AND WHOLE.
‘Clouds in the Distance’ - Lisson Gallery - LONDON.
'Beauty can be discovered in the most unconventional situations.’ M.Y.
Masaomi Yasunaga photographed by Sunny Sun, January 2024.
A psychological archeological haul, presented in the blinking daylight of a time in delay - like the memory of touching the clouds, as a child.
A time machine's contents where such relics are scoured for answers, seemingly created in the depths of a darkness - their inward eyes baked shut, their heartbeat too slow to hear, but to touch these tremulous barnacled bodies is to sense that their kiln birth - forever warm. A grandmother’s ashes form a porcelain memory - crystalised and hot with tears to dissolve into the porous.
To hatch the insects and protruding bones of a ruin. A construction of rubble, where foundations are absent and the ceilings cave.
'When I create, I always envision a distant view, an act of seeing afar'. M.Y.
Masaomi Yasunaga, Vessel Fused with Stone 2023, Glaze, Coloured glaze, Glass, Coloured slip, Kiln wash, Granite, Kaolin 82 x 70 x 70 cm. Photographed by Sunny Sun, January 2024.
These unearthed - amniotic fluid glazed jars hold their holes to cast internal beams in a dormancy of rest - vacant, abandoned yet meniscus full - all these nothings have meant more to me than so many somethings - The escaped or rolled back stones expose the gaping of the dropped granites of the monsters bite - such teeth marks afirm that the space is greater than the sum of such parts.
'Beauty can be discovered in the most unconventional situations.’ M.Y.
Masaomi Yasunaga,‘Empty Creature 2023 - Glaze, Coloured glaze, Titanium oxide 17 x 22 x 10.5 cm. Photographed by Sunny Sun, January 2024.
Poisons bubble, spurt and splinter to hue a mosaic of excavated evidence - formed under the pressure of violence, of ego and the melted prestige of fallen kingdoms - relics still stunned in stillness - once lucid and undulating - now brittle and dry, exposed on a beach awaiting the tide to conceal, to return.
'The ultimate goal of my art is not self expression but what's left of self, after being filtered through fire'. M.Y.
Masaomi Yasunaga, Melting Vessel 2023, Glaze, Kiln wash, Kaolin 31 x 22 x 21.5 cm. Photographed by Sunny Sun, January 2024.
Masaomi Yasunaga ‘Clouds in the Distance’ - until 10 February 2024 - Lisson Gallery - 67 Lisson Street, London.
Photography Sunny Sun for M-A (A SPACE BETWEEN)
Special thanks: The Lisson Gallery.