Akishi Ueda’s surreal sculptures meld creatures and structures in unexpected ways. The artist pulls from both fantasy and science in building his clay creations. And around each corner of the piece comes a surprising bit of life, tucked inside the contours of his strange animals.
“The surrealist sculpture [created] by Akishi Ueda presents a Miyazaki fantasy,” says Le Site Du Japon, as translated. “Playing on the animal and human forms reinterpreted through the oscillations of the woods, colored with mosses undecided in their position, a sculpture in real attraction for the eye that offers this young Japanese that we could discover in Osaka during the fair UNKNOWN / ASIA, which takes place twice a year and showcases talented young Japanese designers.”
See more of the artist’s sculptures below.
In a major installation at Tolarno Galleries in Melbourne, Christopher Langton built his own immersive system of celestial bodies, robots, and organisms resembling viruses and fungi. “The hyperreal manifestation of Langton’s own recent experiences beset by life-threatening disease and infection, ‘Colony’ beckons us to consider that we are all multi-cellular symbiotic organisms, negotiating a precarious shared ecology,” the gallery says.
Boston based artist 
Like tiny movie sets that recall the color-coded cinematography of Wes Anderson,