Born in Tokyo, Japan
Lives and works in London, UK
Yusuke Kuriki is a Japanese-Korean artist working across painting, sculpture, and installation. His practice often begins with encounters with everyday objects, architectural structures and fragments, and natural and technological phenomena. He displaces things from the situations they were made for and places them in unfamiliar conditions, exploring what happens when their usual functions or relationships are changed.
He is interested in the moment when something familiar becomes difficult to recognise. In one work, built-in speakers are extracted from discarded televisions and re-routed to process a philosophy lecture, slowed down and distorted into a low bass hum. The resulting frequencies strip speech of its linguistic meaning, turning narrative into a tactile, physical pressure. A refractive film shifts the visual field between surface and depth, requiring the viewer to adjust their position as different planes of focus appear and disappear. Elsewhere, materials are subjected to structural loads, using tension and precarious balance to expose the limits of the gallery space itself.
Across these works, he is interested in bringing attention to things that are normally difficult to notice. By altering their conditions, he creates situations where things can be encountered differently, where their less visible and speculative behaviours begin to emerge.
contact: yusukekuriki.art[at]gmail.com