Today's art transcends simply being an aesthetic experience, having developed over time into a phenomenon that defines, challenges, and addresses social and cultural issues. As with all artistic disciplines, the evolution may be seen in ceramic art. Ceramic art has attempted to convey, via an endless range of forms and colors, the aesthetic concepts, belief systems, and everyday behaviors of many cultures for thousands of years. However, from the start of the 20th century, modernism has revolutionized nearly every field of art, and this has had a profound impact on ceramic art as well. This change has made it possible for art to evolve from being only a quest for aesthetics to acting as a more profound social reflection. Societies used to consider the idea of "the other" as something amusing, but after the 18th century, advances in human rights caused societal structures to shift in how they perceived this idea. As a result, the concept of "the other" is receiving increased attention in modern ceramic art, as well as today's cinema, literature, and drama. Artists use their works to highlight topics such as social exclusion, identity challenges, migration, and belonging, urging viewers to think and feel about these. This article addresses the process from historical traces to contemporary ceramic art, the relationship between art and the 'other', the transformation of ceramic art from past to present under the influence of modernism and how it evolves today, and the reflections of the concept of 'other' in this branch of art, with examples.
Keywords: Ceramics, other, othering, Contemporary art