Masayuki Sato's hollow shells, in Yingge's sunlight

In the museum's photograph, red shells rise from grey-green hollow forms. The rims are thin and uneven; openings face different directions. I want to move closer, then immediately start worrying about the person who has to carry it.

Japanese artist Masayuki Sato won the 2024 Taiwan Ceramics Biennale Grand Prize. His continuing Shell Nest series grows through making and firing: impressions of landscapes, city fragments and memory gather into forms, rather than pictures of particular places. The museum describes a shell as protecting an inner life, and a nest as a place of gathering, growth and eventual departure.

Allow an hour for these works and a longer visit if you want to explore the museum.