Haruka Matsuo likes to play with traditional and habitual concepts. By moving or changing traditional “rules” she likes to arouse a certain feel of imbalance. In this state of imbalance it is possible that new meanings will arise.
Conversations with people about their lives and routines, exploring their habits and habitations, pictures and sketches all these impressions are being materialized into small pieces of work that, more and more, will set the boundaries of the original concept and slowly will develop into a world of their own; an installation originating in and consisting of a whole range of feelings, shared by many people.
For the ‘Provocative teapots’ the rare traditional technique “Bankoyaki” (thin pressed clay wrapped around a puzzled wooden mold makes the shape of the teapot) is used to combine Japanese teapot ceramics with traditional Dutch embroidery techniques. The images used on the teapots are erotic images that contrast with both Japanese and Dutch conservative traditions.
website: www.haruka.nl