Ho Lai: Traces of Fragments, 2024
Traces of Fragments, solo show at Shigaraki Ceramics Cultural Park, Japan, December 2024
In October-December 2024, I participated in an artist-in-residence program at the Shigaraki Ceramics Cultural Park, supported by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council Cultural Exchange grant. During my residency I experimented with various glaze materials and alternative firing methods. Towards the end of the residency, I debuted a solo exhibition Traces of Fragments’ at the gallery. This series explores the boundaries of clay, glaze, and glass through an experimental, material-led approach to sculptural form. The series of work embody a distinctive creative process of destruction, collection, and reassembly, serving as both a reflection of my lived experience, sentiments and a response to local material research conducted during my time in Shigaraki.
Captions
- Buried, 2024, glaze, glass, coloured clay
- Fragment II, 2024, Ash Glaze, Glass
- Fragment I, 2024, coloured clay, glass
- 31, 2024, ash glaze, glass
- Inferno, 2024, carbonised glaze. This piece was made out of purely glaze material, by utilising the carbon trapping technique and firing with organic matters, it smoked the glaze and the black you are seeing here is the colour of carbonisation.
- Metanoia, 2024, stones, glaze
- Memory Ash (Triptych), 2024, Ash Glaze, Glass, Stones
- Metanoia, 2024, stones, glaze. This series was made using locally sourced glaze materials from Shigaraki, rubbles of stones were fired to glaze firing temperature and fused together using glass casting technique.
- Relic of Ebb, 2024, stoneware, glass
- White Noise, 2024, glaze, porcelain
- Sand Vessel VII, 2024, glaze, coloured clay
- Installation view, Traces of Fragments, Shigaraki Ceramics Cultural Park, Japan, December 2024
