Kimi Nii

Kimi Nii was born in Hiroshima and emigrated to Brazil with her parents in 1957 at the age of nine. She later enrolled in an industrial design course at the FAAP, where she began her ceramics studies. After learning the basic principles of design, she created objects that were pleasing to the eye and useful in the home. The more she immersed herself in her work, the more poetry she found in her creative process, gradually moving away from utilitarianism towards the purity of artistic expression. In interviews, Kimi has said that she is endlessly impressed by the geometric perfection and incomparable elegance of natural forms that emerge from the earth. She is fascinated by the fact that all the features of these forms are not random, but logically determined and connected to the rest of nature. She says she cannot reproduce what she sees, but she can be inspired by it and translate her feelings into her work. She has been working with high-temperature ceramics for more than 40 years to embody her experiences and is surprised every time she opens a kiln with fired objects. The fact is that even the elusive variables in the composition and character of earth, water, air and fire at extremely high temperatures produce unrepeated results.

«Little by little I learned the lesson of humility: to unite my will with the properties of fire, water, air and earth and take advantage of it.»