The smooth curvatures and fine lines of Shio Kusaka’s ceramics look minimalistic at first. But her use of subtle imperfections, textures, and imagery create a perfect fusion of allusions to not only the past and present, but the future as well. Kusaka takes inspiration from the Jomon (10,500–300 B.C.), Yayoi (300 B.C.–300 A.D.), and Kofun (300–552 A.D.) eras of Japanese pottery, thinks about Ancient Greece and Athenian vases, and alludes to Star Trek, Star Wars, and wave-particle duality. In her first Paris exhibition, Kusaka’s time-bending series will be shown on a single pedestal table that runs the length of the gallery, highlighting the eras that carry Kusaka from antiquity to astral planes. —Lucy Horowitz