Shio Kusaka at Blum & Poe

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Epicurean pottery, pleasure in the temperate, reserved handling of sensitivities implying a virtuous stake in its bright pleasure, internally luminous to mirror the porcelain souls of consumers who desire them - inordinate number of writing insinuating how much you are going to "want one" and they do after all make a point to confuse commodity, aesthetic and functional forms, defiantly vessels, or toys - anti-decadence assigning morality to their commodity which itself became a massive trend post 2008 recession, austerity itself becoming a thing to sell.


See too: Juha Pekka Matias Laakkonen at Corvi-Mora

Shio Kusaka at greengrassi



I mean of course these look good. Great even. To roll one in your hands. All the bright desire of commodity souvenirs - their cute lovable simplicity, the love of refuse, the handmade, the cutsey irrelevance in a line. The tiny sculpture trick. The Richard Scary one of each kind trick.
The Artworld always has exactly one ceramist, and one could find a conspiracy in this with the passing of that other major clay-man, her emerging as he was passing into history. It’s a like a tenured position: The Artworld’s ceramist. Not that Kusaka isn’t good, but rather where are the others, there must be some, can’t just be one potter.