Japanese artist Masayuki Sato was awarded the Grand Prize at the 2024 Taiwan Ceramics Biennale, distinguishing himself from 1,216 entries submitted from 66 countries with his exceptional artistic achievement.

The artist Masayuki SATO works with clay, allowing unnamed forms to emerge through the act of making. His practice has evolved through works such as Shed Shell (Nukegara), Water Bone (Mizu no Hone), Water’s Remnant (Mizu no Hate), and Water Nest (Mizu no Su), exploring traces of life, time, and existence. These explorations have developed into my ongoing series Shell Nest.

A shell protects what lies within while forming a boundary with the outside world. A nest is a place where life gathers, grows, and eventually departs.

In recent years, the artist has increasingly responded to feelings received from landscapes, fragments of cities, and the atmosphere, time, and memories held within them. These feelings are not representations of specific places, but subtle impressions that gradually settle into form through making and firing.

At times, the process works in reverse: a completed form reveals a feeling or scenery that had been present all along.

KIZAHASHI is the threshold between these states—between feeling and form, inner and outer, memory and the present. From one form, a scene emerges; from that scene, another world begins to open.

Date：October 13, 2026 – November 10, 2026

Venue: 1F Sunlight Gallery, New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum