INOUE KAI

Inoue was born in Ehime, Japan in 2000, and graduated from the Graduate School of Tama Art University in 2024, majoring in ceramics. For Inoue, "ceramics" is a medium that transmits culture and values over time through its constancy while remaining close to people's daily lives, and is a material an...

Inoue was born in Ehime, Japan in 2000, and graduated from the Graduate School of Tama Art University in 2024, majoring in ceramics. For Inoue, "ceramics" is a medium that transmits culture and values over time through its constancy while remaining close to people's daily lives, and is a material and expression that can retain the changing aspects of the city (=street) through ephemeral energy. The "street" is also a symbol of the times in which we live, where trends, relationships, and traces of traffic exist. Inoue's works, created through the fusion of ceramic techniques and street culture, express the physical energy and multi-layered layers inherent to such street culture. In addition, Inoue's works present the traces of a complex and difficult era of transformation. It is also Inoue's own "proof of existence" that he preserves the times and moments that he is actually living right now through the constancy of his ceramics.