From 1st of October to 26th of October 2026, 35 exclusive ceramic works by Onree will be presented throughout Jinny Street Gallery, open air art space in the shopping district Jingumae 2-chome, Shibuya.
The exhibition invites visitors to encounter ceramics not as perfectly controlled objects, but as records of touch, movement and instinct. Join the tile making workshop by Onree on October 12th as part of the exhibition
Workshop
As part of the exhibition, Onree will host a hands-on ceramic tile-making workshop for the local community of Jingumae 2-chome on October 12, 2026, during the Jingumae 2-chome local matsuri, the people design street.
Participants will work directly with clay to create their own ceramic tiles, using stamps, tools and everyday objects to leave marks and textures on the surface.
For those interested in participating please check the details on Jinny’s Instagram, @jinny.gallery.
In “Memory Foam” all gestures become a memories
When creating Memory Foam and throughout his practice, Onree focuses on a simple question: what happens when an artist stops trying to control the final form of a ceramic object?
Rather than beginning with a predetermined shape, Onree allows the material and the body to lead the process. Touching, bending, pressing, pinching and attaching become intuitive gestures through which each vessel gradually takes shape. The clay receives every movement, the pressure of a fingertip, the force of a hand, a deformation or an unexpected mark.
Once fired, these temporary gestures become permanent. What was once soft and responsive becomes hard ceramic, preserving a fleeting physical action as a lasting memory.
For Onree, irregularities, distortions and imperfections are not mistakes to be corrected, but traces of the moment in which the work was created, a physical record of feeling, movement and thought. For these reasons his vessels feel very very tactile and unpredictable. In Memory Foam, those are more than a mere object. Onree’s vessels become a memory of his body.
Jinny Street Gallery