Tristan Hoare is delighted to present a dual exhibition of works by French weaver Marie Hazard and ceramics by Japanese artist Masaomi Yasunaga, curated by Sonya Tamaddon.
Both threading and ceramics embody notions of being enmeshed, finding connections, coming apart, thus disclosing multiple incarnations, formats, densities, and textures. In the woven works of Hazard and in the ceramic vessels of Yasunaga, the artists make a poignancy of the familiar by allowing rituals of life and their affiliated embellishments to be misconstrued. Both artists engage in radical acts to bring their artworks to life, stripping their chosen mediums of their centuries-long ties to function.
Together in their processes and provocations which transfigure ordinary materials into textured visual puzzle, Hazard and Yasunaga challenge the linear nature of time and allow for a ceaseless re-becoming.
Their visual dialogue will be complemented with an in-conversation event between Hazard, the exhibition's curator Sonya Tamaddon and independent curator Bianca A. Manu, associated with the Serpentine Galleries on Monday 24th June. The exhibition will be on at our Fitzroy Square gallery between 30th May to 28th June 2024.
About the Artists
Marie Hazard (b.1994) is a French weaver who lives and works in Paris, France. Born in Le Havre, she received a BA from Central Saint Martins in 2017 with a degree in textile design. Literature, photography, studies of pastel on paper and abstract paintings are used to question the displacement and the position of the viewer and shape her works conceived on the manual wooden loom. Her works incorporate found materials from flowers outside her studio, discarded tire parts, to diverse fabrics, linen, mohair, recycled polyester, paper yarn, as well as stitched or printed excerpts of texts and her photography. Hazard’s multidisciplinary approach to weaving recalls 19th century innovations of the British Arts & Crafts movement’s adaptation of techniques that were tailored to our needs yet embraces and welcomes accidents and elements of chance.
Masaomi Yasunaga (b. 1982) is a Japanese ceramicist based in Iga-shi, Mie Prefecture. Born in Osaka, Yasunaga holds a masters degree in Environmental Design from Osaka Sangyo University. While at university, Yasunaga trained under the tutelage of Satoru Hoshino, a second generation proponent of Sodeisha. The experimental ceramics group founded in Kyoto in 1948 otherwise known as the Crawling through Mud Society sought to liberate ceramics from a utilitarian product mandate and establish them in the realm of artistic sculpture. Yasunaga’s recent work technically cannot be classified as ceramic as there is no clay present in the finished forms. Yasunaga sculpts glaze as the primary material of his objects: pit-fired buried in sand, combined with unique raw materials such as feldspar, glass, and metal powders. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Arts, Auburn, USA, the Ariana Museum, Geneva, Switzerland and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, USA.