Juz Kitson lures her audience into an opulent garden and casts them out renewed: an encounter with her sublime installations provokes deeply affected responses. Kitson commands her talismanic objects to test the boundaries between contemporary ceramics and contemporary shamanism. Bringing together Dehua and Jingdezhen porcelain, often embellished with fur, Kitson creates a form of memento mori meets animist fetish. Overtly seductive, the works’ tension lies in resisting the conventions of…
