Bird, Plane, Butterfly is a perspectivist exploration of stillness, natural connection, and contemplation within the hectic pace of contemporary urban life. Antoinette Nausikaä brings her focus to the rhythms and textures of the city.
In this project, photography and ceramic sculpture converge into a poetic narrative of transformation and timelessness. For the first time, Nausikaä introduces large-scale, almost life-sized figurative ceramic sculptures alongside ceramic plate works and photography.
The addition of softly curved, human-shaped ceramic figures anchors the space with their meditative and grounded presence. These figurines create a dialogue between urban abstraction and tangible human experience, inviting reflection on how personal and collective stories intersect in shared environments.
Over the past few years, Nausikaä has wandered through major urban centers—such as Tokyo, Madrid, Paris, New York, Beijing, Xiamen—gathering images that reflect the interplay of culture and nature, the timeless and the transient, the organic and the abstract. By zooming in and out and shifting between macro and micro perspectives, she bridges these seemingly opposing experiences.