IKIMONO by Yukari Hotta. Contribution to The Mindcraft Project 2023. Photo Credit: Anders Sune Berg.

From The Mindcraft Project 2023. Video Credit: Benjamin Lund.

Solo exhibition Utsuwa by Yukari Hotta, OUTPOST, Copenhagen, 2022. Photo Credit: Jan Sondergaard.

Utsuwa 16 by Yukari Hotta, Stoneware, 2021. Photo Credit: Yukari Hotta.

Solo exhibition Shapeshifter by Yukari Hotta, SFP gallery, Tokyo, 2022. Photo Credit: Yukari Hotta.

Bridge group exhibition featuring Yukari Hotta, Six Square House, New York, 2023. Photo Credit: Brooke Holm.

Ceramic handles by Yukari Hotta. Atelier Collection produced by Reform. Photo Credit: Reform.

From The Mindcraft Project 2023. Photo Credit: Benjamin Lund.

Yukari Hotta — Artist and Designer

“My work is often based around the slow moving wonders of nature and daily coincidences, but also the people around me. I enjoy studying old trees, stones and plants as well as the human body. The way nature grows is very fascinating to me, especially slowly over time.”

About:

Working from a small storefront studio in the Copenhagen neighbourhood of Nordvest, Yukari Hotta spends her time between the energy of city life and the quiet of the forests and oceans a bike ride away. Trained as a designer, her artistic practice sprouted a decade ago out of a desire to translate tactility and notions of nature into works produced by hand. Natural clays form the base of her practice, each presenting their own unique composition and colour within Hotta’s final forms. Without the use of glaze, her objects gain their unique characteristics when worked by hand – some are left raw, while others are sanded and smoothed, along with the various temperatures at which they are fired. While references to nature and the human body are present within her work, their forms are deliberately open in nature and invite the viewer to create their own narratives. Hotta views each piece as an individual character – often adding holes within her works so they can breath. Together they sit on an industrial shelf within her studio, interacting with one another as friendships grow between her sculptures.

Part of Mindcraft:

2023

Website:

tentenstudio.jp

Instagram:

@yukarihotta

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