Yuka Nishihisamatsu

Yuka Nishihisamatsu was born in 1992, in Kameoka-city in Kyoto prefecture. Nishihisamatsu grew up with both of her parents being artists, and she used to flow them around the mountainous city of Kameoka. Kameoka is known for a very dense fog due to its mountains and cold wethers, and she always was fascinated by the atmosphere that created by the fog. She mainly creates ceramic works with multiple colors and fine details which she imagine as a “place to lean on” and the object of prayer. Nishihisamatsu’s work has big influence from the Japanese Buddhism and she reconstructs and reinterprets things with history, inherited items passed down to the present day, indigenous culture, religious symbols, etc. by replacing them with the material of earth (soil). She invites us to reflect on the meaning of normal everyday objects combined with traditional Japanese objects, assembling them together in delicate and profound sculptures, which address and create new links between life, death and rebirth. We often find the lotus in her compositions, a flower that is a symbol of purity but also of regeneration.