Ikuko Iwamoto and Michi Suzuki: PROLIFERATION

7th November – 8th December 2007

EXHIBIT’s tenth Empty Space Projects, PROLIFERATION, is a manifesto of the intricacy of life by Japanese ceramicists Ikuko Iwamoto and Michi Suzuki. Both alumni of the Royal College of Art, the exhibition is their first collaboration project derived from a mutual admiration of organic forms.

The title of the exhibition, PROLIFERATION, often associates with excess cell growth in human biology or spread of nuclear weapons. It is a contradictory that the same word can represent both creation and destruction, and this very sense of complexity is imposed in this body of work. Each organic shape represents individual unit of the most basic, humble form of life. They also symbolise the unpredictability and randomness in life that over-power human, but only by solemnly accepting it and not fighting that one could truly survive in peace. Expressing human condition in the grand scheme of Creation through these organic forms, they assemble alongside each other and take shape in what seemingly chaotic at first glace. Only in close inspection that one can see it is, in fact, a profound pattern that mimics life.

Ada Fung

Image: Patricia Niven

Proliferation Light by Ikuko Iwamoto