MAM Project 035: Brie Ruais

Preview: written before the show opened

Each of Brie Ruais's signature works starts as a mound of clay weighing as much as she does, 130lbs going by the titles the museum shows. She gets on top of it and spreads, tears and scrapes it outward with her whole body, and she has told Artspace that her knee marks stay in the centre. The fired clay is cut into a grid of tiles and hung on the wall, so you're standing in front of a record of one body moving.

For this show the Santa Fe-based artist did a residency at the Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, studied Japanese clay and ceramic history, and made new works from it. Shigaraki is the town behind the clay tanuki guarding izakaya doors across Tokyo; Ruais went for the clay, not the raccoon dogs.

Entry comes with the Mariko Mori: All That Shines ticket: ¥2,800 on weekdays and ¥3,000 at weekends, ¥200 less online, in timed slots. Open until 22:00, Tuesdays until 17:00. Photos are fine without flash.