Zhu Ohmu
Pirouettes (held breath) III, 2026
stoneware
71 x 50 x 45 cm
28 x 19 3/4 x 17 3/4 in
28 x 19 3/4 x 17 3/4 in
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Zhu Ohmu is a Taiwanese-born artist based in Paris whose practice explores the relationship between the handmade and emerging technologies in an age defined by automation and mass production. She...
Zhu Ohmu is a Taiwanese-born artist based in Paris whose practice explores the relationship between the handmade and emerging technologies in an age defined by automation and mass production. She constructs vessels using a coiling technique that echoes the additive logic of 3D printing, yet remains entirely guided by hand and intuition.
Through this process, forms emerge with organic qualities that ceramic 3D printing cannot yet easily replicate. This distinction lies in the nuanced intelligence of the artist’s hand – its capacity for patience, care, curiosity, adaptation, instinct, and reflex – which fosters an intimate dialogue with material and process.
This approach has led her to investigate the evolving space between human capability and machine limitation, and to question how authorship and intention can be maintained amid rapid technological advancement and growing anxieties around human obsolescence.
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The Pirouettes series is the artist’s first body of work made in France. The title refers to the movement and stillness required in making the works, and the experience of moving to a new country: like a dancer spinning while holding their breath mid-turn, motion and suspension existing at the same time.
Through this process, forms emerge with organic qualities that ceramic 3D printing cannot yet easily replicate. This distinction lies in the nuanced intelligence of the artist’s hand – its capacity for patience, care, curiosity, adaptation, instinct, and reflex – which fosters an intimate dialogue with material and process.
This approach has led her to investigate the evolving space between human capability and machine limitation, and to question how authorship and intention can be maintained amid rapid technological advancement and growing anxieties around human obsolescence.
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The Pirouettes series is the artist’s first body of work made in France. The title refers to the movement and stillness required in making the works, and the experience of moving to a new country: like a dancer spinning while holding their breath mid-turn, motion and suspension existing at the same time.