Nanami Saito was born in Osaka in 1996, and currently lives and works in Tokyo. Employing techniques such as entwining wire netting used for pest control around clay before firing, Saito produces ceramic works that explore the interplay between “nature/manmade objects/her own body,” examining their distances and relationships. Saito’s artistic practice is inspired by extensive fieldwork both in Japan and overseas, focusing on rituals, beliefs, and sacred sites, and covers a wide range of locations, including Mount Osore in Aomori Prefecture, Yakushima in Kagoshima Prefecture, the stone circles of the British Isles, and the religious rituals of Bali. In recent years, she has taken up the new theme of “corporeality,” expanding her practice into a series of works that use her own body parts as motifs. Her major exhibitions include MA (kokyu kyoto, 2022), Whispers in the Wholeness (Yutaka Kikutake Gallery, 2024), PNEUMA (Kuma Gallery, Tokyo, 2023).