Yusuké Y. Offhause

Yusuké Y. Offhause is a Franco-Japanese artist born in Tokyo in 1985, living and working between Geneva and Tokyo. His work takes imperfection as a starting point rather than a defect: accident, the unintentional and the reactivation of objects for uses they were never meant for become sources of creation and carriers of an aesthetic of their own.

He works mainly in sculpture and installation, with a strong attraction to ceramics and architecture, and turns to glass, metal, wax, bread and sugar when the research calls for it; everyday plastic bottles and food containers are recast as fossils or archaeological finds, so memory, archaeology and anticipation meet. His work has appeared at the Swiss Design Awards 2018 and Swiss Art Awards 2019, the Ariana Museum, mudac, the Palais de Tokyo and the Hermès foundation in Tokyo, and he won the Leenaards Cultural Grant in 2019.