{"id":296006,"date":"2026-04-21T11:46:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T02:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adfwebmagazine.jp\/?p=296006"},"modified":"2026-04-21T11:46:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T02:46:19","slug":"art-paris-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adfwebmagazine.jp\/en\/art\/art-paris-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Paris 2026: What I Saw in the Promises Section \u2014 Spotlight on Ceramics"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"cb-itemprop\" itemprop=\"reviewBody\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adfwebmagazine.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/adf-web-magazine-art-paris-2026-2.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.adfwebmagazine.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/adf-web-magazine-art-paris-2026-2-750x536.jpg\" alt=\"adf-web-magazine-art-paris-2026-2\" width=\"750\" height=\"536\" class=\"noimg aligncenter wp-image-295996 size-ADFwebimage999\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.adfwebmagazine.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/adf-web-magazine-art-paris-2026-2-750x536.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.adfwebmagazine.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/adf-web-magazine-art-paris-2026-2-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.adfwebmagazine.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/adf-web-magazine-art-paris-2026-2-1024x731.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.adfwebmagazine.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/adf-web-magazine-art-paris-2026-2-150x107.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.adfwebmagazine.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/adf-web-magazine-art-paris-2026-2-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.adfwebmagazine.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/adf-web-magazine-art-paris-2026-2-230x164.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.adfwebmagazine.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/adf-web-magazine-art-paris-2026-2-560x400.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.adfwebmagazine.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/adf-web-magazine-art-paris-2026-2-700x500.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.adfwebmagazine.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/adf-web-magazine-art-paris-2026-2-980x700.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.adfwebmagazine.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/adf-web-magazine-art-paris-2026-2-500x357.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.adfwebmagazine.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/adf-web-magazine-art-paris-2026-2-600x429.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.adfwebmagazine.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/adf-web-magazine-art-paris-2026-2.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a>Eri Maeda<\/p>\r\n<p>Every spring, Art Paris comes back to the Grand Palais. This year, like every year, I walked in excited and headed straight to the Promises section \u2014 dedicated to galleries established within the last ten years. Fresh energy, real risks. Always my first stop.<\/p>\r\n<p>This year, something surprised me: ceramics were everywhere. And not the kind I expected.<\/p>\r\n<h5>Clay that plays<\/h5>\r\n<p>I grew up associating ceramics with restraint, honoring the material, its original colors and textures, minimalism as a form of respect for clay. Beautiful, but quiet.<\/p>\r\n<p>What I saw in the Promises section was the opposite of quiet.<\/p>\r\n<h5>The booths that stayed with me:<\/h5>\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>EDJI Gallery \u2014 Philippine d'Otreppe<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Double V Gallery \u2014 Maximilien Pellet<\/li>\r\n\t<li>C+N Canepaneri \u2014 Deng Shiqing &amp; Holly Stevenson<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Galerie Bao \u2014 Nguy\u1ec5n Duy M\u1ea1nh<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Chiguer Art Contemporain \u2014 Abdelmalik Berhiss &amp; Pitseolak Qimirpik<\/li>\r\n\t<li>La Peau de l'Ours \u2014 R\u00e9my Pommeret<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>Gallery after gallery, I felt the same thing: these artists are enjoying themselves. There's humor, lightness, something almost childlike \u2014 and I mean that as a compliment. You can feel when someone had fun making something.<\/p>\r\n<p>What this generation gets is that ceramics is a shape shifter. It can become anything. No rules about what it has to look like or mean. They've grabbed that freedom completely \u2014 not to be provocative, but because it's genuinely joyful to work that way.<\/p>\r\n<p>I left believing in this medium more than ever.<br>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.adfwebmagazine.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/adf-web-magazine-art-paris-2026-1.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.adfwebmagazine.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/adf-web-magazine-art-paris-2026-1-750x536.jpg\" alt=\"adf-web-magazine-art-paris-2026-1\" width=\"750\" height=\"536\" class=\"aligncenter size-ADFwebimage999 wp-image-295997\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.adfwebmagazine.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/adf-web-magazine-art-paris-2026-1-750x536.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.adfwebmagazine.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/adf-web-magazine-art-paris-2026-1-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.adfwebmagazine.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/adf-web-magazine-art-paris-2026-1-1024x731.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.adfwebmagazine.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/adf-web-magazine-art-paris-2026-1-150x107.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.adfwebmagazine.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/adf-web-magazine-art-paris-2026-1-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.adfwebmagazine.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/adf-web-magazine-art-paris-2026-1-230x164.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.adfwebmagazine.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/adf-web-magazine-art-paris-2026-1-560x400.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.adfwebmagazine.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/adf-web-magazine-art-paris-2026-1-700x500.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.adfwebmagazine.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/adf-web-magazine-art-paris-2026-1-980x700.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.adfwebmagazine.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/adf-web-magazine-art-paris-2026-1-500x357.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.adfwebmagazine.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/adf-web-magazine-art-paris-2026-1-600x429.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.adfwebmagazine.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/adf-web-magazine-art-paris-2026-1.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>This year's theme, Babel, was about art and language, the meaning of signs, what travels across cultures and what gets lost along the way. As a Japanese contemporary artist based in Paris, thinking in Japanese and making work in French, this is just my daily life. Having a space at the fair that reflected that felt like a small gift.<\/p>\r\n<p>More than half the artists in the Promises section were women. As an emerging Japanese woman artist, walking through it felt like something had shifted \u2014 not just on paper, but in the room itself.<\/p>\r\n<p>I came down from the balconies full and a little tired, the right kind of tired after a good fair. It was time that made me think about clay, and about my own work too.<\/p>\r\n<h5>More about me<\/h5>\r\n<p>As a Japanese ceramic artist working in Paris, my practice is grounded in personal and cultural experience.<br>\r\nGrowing up in Japan, I was shaped by unspoken rules around behavior, gender, and emotional expression. These underlying structures continue to inform my work and are central to my approach to contemporary ceramic sculpture.<\/p>\r\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/3vfrm6pf\" title=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/3vfrm6pf\">https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/3vfrm6pf<\/a>]<\/p>\r\n<p>Substack\u3001Instagram\u3067\u306f\u6700\u8fd1\u306e\u9676\u82b8\u4f5c\u54c1\u3084\u30d7\u30ed\u30b8\u30a7\u30af\u30c8\u3092\u3054\u89a7\u3044\u305f\u3060\u3051\u307e\u3059\u3002 <br>\r\nSubstack [<a href=\"https:\/\/erimaeda.substack.com\/\" title=\"https:\/\/erimaeda.substack.com\/\">https:\/\/erimaeda.substack.com\/<\/a>] <br>\r\nInstagram [<a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/3jy6wzv9\" title=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/3jy6wzv9\">https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/3jy6wzv9<\/a>] <br>\r\nStudio in Paris: MONO [<a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/uWE9iiXhiW3b12r37\" title=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/uWE9iiXhiW3b12r37\">https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/uWE9iiXhiW3b12r37<\/a>] mono - atelier de c\u00e9ramique<\/p><\/article>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eri Maeda Every spring, Art Paris comes back to the Grand Palais. 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