June Fischer

Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan

Artist statement

My artistic practice revolves around themes and questions concerning the absurdity, the strange, the humorous, the conscious/ subconscious, nonsense, sensory perception and the everyday. In terms of content and form, my practice seeks the hybrid and is dependent on a constant development and transformation of artistic methods. Since I’ve been been reintroduced to the medium of ceramics in 2019, a new path opened up for me in my artistic practice. By working with this medium, I found a way to pursue and combine different areas of my interests at the same time. I have acquired various techniques that allow me to incorporate ceramics, photography, video, sculpture and text into my works and allow them to interact with each other across different levels. An ongoing text titled Stuzzicadenti, which constantly evolves as Écriture automatique, serves as the basis for many of my works. The technique of automatic writing allows me to explore my subconscious, making the text a collection of snapshots of unformed thoughts and emotions. An abstract piece, without a consistency or fixed narrative, which, with its audio-book character, wants to cast a spell of a non-existent story over the viewer. I translate individual words or sentences from the text into a specific medium in order to make it tangible and give it another form of existence. Words or paragraphs from the text appear as sculptural or pictorial elements as a ceramic relief. Through the interplay of two-dimensional screen...

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