Eighth Exhibition

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‘Proliferation’ is a manifesto of the intricacy of life by two Japanese ceramicists, Ikuko Iwamoto and Michi Suzuki.

Both alumni of the Royal College of Art, this installation is their first collaborative project derived from a mutual admiration of organic forms.

By definition, proliferation associates with excess cell growth in human biology or the spread of nuclear weapons. It is contradictory that the same word can represent both creation and destruction, and it is this very sense of complexity that informs the spirit of the work.

Iwamoto and Suzuki have created masses of intricate ceramic pieces for the exhibition. Each organic shape symbolises an individual unit of the most basic, humble form of life. They also express the unpredictability and randomness in life that over-power humans, but only by solemnly accepting it and not fighting that one could truly survive in peace.

Encapsulating 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. It is only on close inspection that one can see it is, in fact, a profound pattern that mimics life.

7 November – 8 December 2007