Otani Workshop's Uncanny Childhood Forms at Perrotin Paris

Perrotin presents Otani Workshop's eighth solo exhibition with the gallery, his second in Paris. The Japanese ceramicist combines painting and sculpture to create elemental forms exploring childhood's mysterious, uncanny realm. His practice involves molding earth, clay, or mud into heads, bodies, and limbs, then firing to harden. The exhibition references a global lineage of earth-shaping, from Volterra to Delphi, Prometheus to Vulcan, Rodin to Fontana. At seventeen, Otani discovered Alberto Giacometti, an influence echoed in his work. The show runs at Perrotin Paris.