Artist

Natsuko Uchino

Born in 1983 in Japan, Natsuko Uchino graduated from Cooper Union in New York in 2007. Her journey is shaped as much by agricultural and rural experience as by the reinvestment of traditional techniques in a sensitive and learning-oriented exploration.

Working with clay is one of the entry points into her work. It highlights a commitment of the gesture through time, seeking to build an original path in the face of the accelerating mechanical and digital transformation of production and subsistence methods.

Natsuko Uchino thus develops a cross-disciplinary practice between art and ecology. Through a holistic approach to art, she revisits the history of techniques and « savoir-faire », subverting hierarchies between disciplines. In doing so, she aims to reacquaint herself with the manufacturing, transformation and assembly processes associated with craftsmanship and vernacular techniques.