71. Saki Kawaura 川浦紗季

Saki Kawaura was born in Aichi in 1987. She studied art education and ceramics at Aichi University of Education and still lives in Aichi. One of her teachers at Aichi University was the famous avant-garde artist Harumi Nakashima (see No. 34), and Saki Kawaura's work also incorporates the complex forms for which Harumi Nakashima became famous. It is difficult to describe Saki Kawaura's work other than as fascinating.  Using "Cinnabar Red" as her dye, she creates works that express the glow of the human body in its most vulnerable state.  Formless as humans yet recognizable as such, these sculptures are and although made of earthen clay they seem to have a biological structure, the inside of human life shown to the viewer in beautifully twisted organic forms. Saki Kawaura adds to her biomorphic sculptures with the appearance of living matter an extra dimension to art that is beautiful, impressive and also somewhat uncomfortable to behold.  Saki Kawaura is relatively young but has already had several group and solo exhibitions at prominent galleries such as Gallery VOICE, Galery Sokyo, and the Meguro Ceramics Museum.