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Futamura, Yoshimi 二村好美, né en 1959 à Nagoya

Yoshimi Futamura draws her inspiration from natural forms, in both large- scale installations and sculptural decorative objects. She mixes with her stoneware clay porcelain grog, which produces an irregular surface covered with white encrustations of different sizes. These may be a reinterpretation of a recurrent motif in Japanese ceramics from the kilns of Shigaraki known as “crab’s eye”. The forms of her ceramics sometimes evoke mushrooms or roots, or, as with the Cernuschi Museum piece, may serve as vases for flower arrangements, with the rough, brownish surface serving as a visual extension of the stems and flowers.