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Yuko Fukuba Johnsson (b. 1973) is a Japanese ceramic artist currently based in Hong Kong who creates "Memory Containers" to encapsulate moments of personal and collective memory. Born in Tokyo, Fukuba earned a Bachelor's degree in Photography in her early career, subsequently working as an advertising creative at multinational agencies for twenty years before relocating to Hong Kong in 2013. In 2020, she pivoted to contemporary ceramic art, enrolling in the Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) program co-presented by RMIT University and the Hong Kong Art School. Fascinated by ceramics as a symbolic, vessel-like medium, she combines its unique materiality with conceptual approaches to deeply explore how this ancient craft can hold beliefs, wishes, and intangible emotions while containing physical objects.
About the artist
Johnsson’s art revolves around the concept of “Memory Containers”: the physical archiving of fragile human emotions, lost moments, and personal histories through mineral and ceramic substrates. Drawing inspiration from archeology, nature, and emotional geography, her core idea is that memories are not merely abstract thoughts, but tangible layers that erode and petrify over time like rock strata. By marrying organic mineral glazes with structural geometric cuts, she creates visual containers that hold time still.
Johnsson’s technique integrates ceramic glazes, layered mineral pigments, and textured mixed media onto canvas and ceramic surfaces. She applies translucent washes alongside raw, clay-like slips, building deeply eroded, fossilized surfaces that recall weathered stone, ancient artifacts, or petrified wood. She balances these unpredictable, organic fluid runs with precise, carved geometric lines and incised marks, establishing a compelling contrast between chaos and order. This multi-layered tactile process serves as a physical metaphor for memory, where emotions and experiences gradually settle, erode, and crystallize over an enduring substrate.
She offers a meditative antidote to digital amnesia, urging our generation to slow down and value the physical marks left by lived experience. Her practice reminds us of the value of tactile, enduring art in preserving human emotion and history across geographical and cultural divides.
