Keiko Machida
Originally a painter, Keiko Machida's ceramics are all about tiny things drawn with her fingers. She brings to life a whole miniature, hybrid people (human/animal/vegetal), torn between figuration and abstraction, situated at the edge of the shadows, between fairy tale and mythology. The heads of these small, inward-looking beings appear "heavy with strange dreams "1. All the characters are linked by a tenuous dialogue. The staging takes shape like a fragile breath.
Born in 1976 in Osaka. Lives and works in Evires.
Training
2008: HEA visual arts 'painting-drawing' and HEAD, Geneva (CH)
1999: Bachelor Crosscultural Studies, University of Kobe (JP).
Exhibitions
2021 : Solo Show, Dessiner la nuit, les revoir le matin, Le Point commun, Crane-Gevrier
2019 : Cabinet des corps exquis, Musée Ariana, Genève - Blind Test, curator J. Guilloud-Cavat, Biennale Out of Box, Villa Dutoit, Genève - Rocks and Trees, solo show, Parcours Céramique Carougeois (CH)
2018: Odeur de..., solo show, Art & Fiction, Lausanne (CH)
2017: Traverse, Saint-Étienne (Loire)
2011: Micro-narratives, solo show, Salle Crosnier Palais de l'Athénée, Geneva.
