2022 "Stranger X" Contemporary Polychrome Porcelain Sculpture by Rena Kudoh

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Rena Kudoh

Rena Kudoh's works recalls ideas in existentialism, metamorphosis, and brings to mind the work of Alberto Giacometti. It … Read more Rena Kudoh

Rena Kudoh's works recalls ideas in existentialism, metamorphosis, and brings to mind the work of Alberto Giacometti. It could be referred to as revelatory in capturing the human condition through figurative expressions of contradiction, separation, and isolation.

Rena Kudoh Artist's Statement

"I create works based on my own memories and habits, mixed with the memories and habits of others, or traces of them. There is a gap where I and others do not completely understand each other, and where we do not understand each other. This gap is a mixture of foreignness to me as an individual and empathy that transcends national boundaries, and it shows me a world that I have seen before but have never seen before." (Partial statement from Kudoh's website).

Rena Kudoh Japan b. 1994
Stranger X 2022 Unique Work
White, green, blue, red porcelain glaze underglaze
11 × 17.6 × 17 in.; 28 × 44.9 × 43.2 cm
Provenance: Rena Kudoh
Exhibition record: Phantasm, LaiSun Keane Gallery, Boston, MA, January 6–February 26, 2023.
Excellent. Handmade creation irregularities
Potential references: Existentialism, metamorphosis, Alberto Giacometti. See less