Yusuke Kuriki is a Japanese-Korean artist currently pursuing an MA Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, working across painting, sculpture, and installation. His practice stages situations where material pushes back, deflecting imposed structures and insisting on its own quiet rhythm. Through process-led experimentation, he searches for states of material immediacy, attending to how objects claim presence within a given space.

This temperament takes shape through contrasting material states. A rigid, Polaroid-shaped copper frame erupts with vivid green crystalline growth, threatening to crust off in a slow crescendo. Elsewhere, discarded metal scraps prop themselves against the wall in precise arrangements, becoming precarious supports — some sharp, others partially wrapped in PVC — each refusing to stay invisible. The work remains intentionally provisional, holding a fragile tension between balance and collapse.

Working with restraint, he constructs conditions that allow material pressure to surface and remain active. Velvety wrapping paper edges outward from a flimsy frame, steadily pressing against flatness as it occupies space. Rather than resolving this tension, he allows it to persist. Within these held moments, objects and space begin to condition one another, opening onto alternative material relations that might be felt.


Contact: yusukekuriki.art[at]gmail.com