Sakamoto Kai: Fire, Earth, and Eating

Sakamoto Kai is a contemporary artist whose ceramics-centered practice involves traveling to various locations to collect clay and then creating work in self-made kilns. Treating the kiln for firing vessels as a sculpture in its own right, he holds performances and workshops to demonstrate the process of baking food in that kiln and then eating the resulting dishes. Sakamoto’s work always aspires to find uses for ceramics. His ceramic art emerges from the intermingling of fire, kiln, vessel, food, and the human desire to cook and eat.

The exhibition will include an installation featuring a kiln, moving image, and photography as well as workshops, performances, and other events in which Sakamoto shares his vision of ceramic art.

The Triangle
The Triangle is a space newly created for the reopening of the Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art. It aims to nurture emerging artists, especially those associated with Kyoto, and to provide opportunities for museum visitors to experience contemporary art. In order to connect the artist, museum, and viewer in a triangle and deepen those connections, the space hosts an eponymous series of special exhibitions and presents new artistic expressions from Kyoto.