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Junpei Hiraoka: Selected works, 2020-2022

February 6, 2023
in Ceramic art
Complex #2
Complex #1
Complex #3
Complex #4
Complex #5
Complex #6
Complex #7
Unravel Container
Unravel Saucer #3
Unravel Saucer #1
Unravel Saucer #2
Unravel Sphere #1
Unravel Sphere #2

Junpei Hiraoka: Selected works, 2020-2022

In Japanese, the word “complex” is causally used to describe an inferiority complex or closeness. However, I know that in psychology, the term refers to certain types of impulses, desires, and attachments. I have titled my work Complex to reference both of these meanings.

As I made these works, I thought about what caused my emotional responses and reflected upon my own “complexes.” I believe that emotions come from an entanglement of belief systems, personal histories, and interactions with different environments. I have attempted to express this mental process of self-reflection through my work as “decomposing → re-recognizing → reconstructing.”

I use the plasticity of clay to express an instinctive, abstract, organic, and constantly changing form of emotion. Then, I carefully coat the body with colored slips. This process is where I reconstruct my emotions rationally by intentionally controlling the material, color, and texture by layering slip.

I believe that such processes, shapes, and color combinations can express the complexity and accumulation of emotions that lead to such “complexes.” By presenting these ceramic forms of layered slip, I hope to provoke an emotional reaction from the viewer, perhaps opening a window to their inner emotions.

Credits (in order of appearance)

  • Emotion series Complex #2, 2020, Ceramic, D35W35H45 cm
  • Emotion series Complex #1, 2020, Ceramic, D30W30H40 cm
  • Emotion series Complex #3, 2021, Ceramic, W32D32H45 cm, Photo credit Tetsuo Ito
  • Emotion series Complex #4, 2021, Ceramic, W40D38H63 cm, Photo credit Tetsuo Ito
  • Emotion series Complex #5, 2020, Ceramic, W50D50H78 cm
  • Emotion series Complex #6, 2020, Ceramic, W22D22H30 cm, Photo credit Tetsuo Ito
  • Emotion series Complex #7, 2022, Ceramic, W22D21H40 cm, Photo credit Tetsuo Ito
  • Unravel Container, 2022, Ceramic
  • Unravel Saucer #3, 2022, Ceramic, W32D32H35 cm, Photo credit Tetsuo Ito
  • Unravel Saucer #1, 2022, Ceramic, W42D45H5 cm, Photo credit Tetsuo Ito
  • Unravel Saucer #2, 2022, Ceramic, W42D43H11 cm
  • Unravel Sphere #1, 2022, Ceramic, W36D36H36 cm
  • Unravel Sphere #2, 2022, Ceramic, W36D36H36 cm
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