Urot Esak

image 1367 b mod 2,240 x 1,620 x 30 mm Direct print, canvas, stretcher bars, staples 2025 *** CON_ at EASTEAST_ Ahn Taewon ARTKING DODI (Ryuki Sugino) GANKAI KUJILLA Heijiro Yagi moteslim Robbie Stinchcomb Ryoma Itagaki (GYOSHA) Urot Esak Zhao Rundong

AKIINOUE (Tokyo) ANOMALY (Tokyo) AWASE gallery (Tokyo) COHJU (Kyoto) CON_ (Tokyo) CYLINDER (Seoul) Gallery Common (Tokyo) GASBON METABOLISM (Yamanashi) Hi Bridge Books (Tokyo) MATTER (London) Nozza Service (Tokyo) PARCEL (Tokyo) PingPaling (Yamanashi) P21 (Seoul) GALLERY SOAP (Fukuoka) ​​GALLERY TARGET (Tokyo) Gallery Trax (Yamanashi) Two Monologue (Tokyo) THE SHOPHOUSE (Hong Kong) Void (Hyogo) YOUTH UNITE By BIKO & KENNY (Tokyo) 4649 + 18, Murata (Tokyo) Tomio Koyama Gallery (Tokyo) GOKOU (Tokyo) A4, 2-1, KITANOMARU GARDEN, CHIYODA-KU (A SO-KO, 1-11-6, HIGASHIKASAI) (Tokyo) Mitame! (Tokyo)

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R: image 253 b mod 1,940 x 2,606 x 30 mm direct print, canvas, stretcher bars, staples 2025

image 449 b mod 1,940 x 2,606 x 30 mm direct printing, canvas, stretcher bars, staples 2025

image 665 b mod 1,940 x 2,606 x 30 mm direct printing, canvas, stretcher bars, staples 2025

image 253 b mod 1,940 x 2,606 x 30 mm direct printing, canvas, stretcher bars, staples 2025

When I look at stains on the wall, at the wrinkles in a shirt, or at the scenery reflected in a window, I see a “picture” there. To see is also to draw. I feel that perhaps this is how pictures began. A “picture” resembles something, and something resembles a “picture”. When I look at a “picture”, it reflects my memories and my body, and at last, it becomes a “picture”. A “picture” is my mirror.

image 1210 b mod W1,620 x H1,120mm direct printing, canvas, acrylic 2025

image 1171 b mod W1,120 x H1,620mm direct printing, canvas, stretcher bars, staples 2025

[News (Jul.7.2025)] 「khôra 場 Book Launch Exhibition」 場所：tata bookshop/gallery 会期：2025年7月18日 (金) – 8月3日 (日) 営業時間：13:00 – 21:00 休廊日：月・火・水 入場無料 お問合せ：[email protected] ⚫︎7月21日（月）は祝日の為、営業いたします。 “khôra ba Book Launch Exhibition" Venue: tata bookshop/gallery Dates: Friday July 18 – Sunday August 3, 2025. Opening hours: 13:00 – 21:00 Closed: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday Free admission Contact: [email protected] ⚫︎We will be open on Monday, July 21st, as it is a national holiday. https://tata-books.com/gallery/840/ *** 私たちの制作スタジオ〈khôra 場〉は、2025年7月18日 (金) – 8月3日 (日)の期間、tata bookshop/galleryにて、「khôra 場 Book Launch Exhibition」を開催いたします。 〈khôra 場〉は、Chihiro Honda「The Island, Parts／あの島、部分」、Urot Esak「image1–1,095 b mod」という2冊の本を出版しました。本展はこれら2冊の出版を記念した展覧会です。2階ギャラリーでは、Chihiro Honda（ホンダチヒロ）とUrot Esakの作品による展覧会を行います。 ホンダチヒロは、鉄を用いた彫刻的構造や音、配置を通じて、「気配」や「媒介性」に着目したインスタレーションを制作しています。身体に金属を内包する自身の経験を起点に、物質・空間・意識のあいだに生じる境界や関係性を探求しています。作品は、儀式や遊び、即興性といった要素を含み、鑑賞者の行為によって変容する“場”として立ち現れます。本展では、新刊『あの島、部分』の出版にあわせて、新作《The Island_02／島_02》を発表します。 Urot Esak（宇呂映作）は、記憶の可塑性を主題に活動しています。現在は、記憶のメディアである写真を起点としたイメージ群の意味内容を改変し、混沌へと還元することを絵筆とした〈擬態絵画〉に取り組んでいます。本展では〈擬態絵画〉の新作を発表します。 Our studio, khôra ba, will hold the "khôra ba Book Launch Exhibition" at tata bookshop/gallery from Friday, July 18 to Sunday, August 3, 2025. khôra ba has recently published two books: The Island, Parts by Chihiro Honda and image1–1,095 b mod by Urot Esak. This exhibition commemorates the launch of these two publications. On the second-floor gallery, a joint exhibition will feature works by Chihiro Honda and Urot Esak. Chihiro Honda creates installations that explore “presence” and “mediation” through sculptural steel structures, sound, and spatial composition. Drawing from her own experience of living with metal in her body, her practice investigates the boundaries and relationships between material, space, and consciousness. Her works evoke a sense of ritual, play, and improvisation, often transforming into active “situations” shaped by the viewers’ engagement. This exhibition presents her new work The Island_02, in conjunction with the publication of her book The Island, Parts. Urot Esak explores the plasticity of memory as the central theme of his practice. His current work centers on Pseudo-Painting—a series that alters the semantic content of image groups, primarily derived from photographs as a medium of memory, and returns them to a state of chaos. This exhibition will feature new works from the Pseudo-Painting series.

Urot Esak “image 1–1,095 b mod” *** 416 Pages W100mm*H150mm*D22mm *** Edit, Design: khôra ba Printing: Morimoto Print Co., Ltd. First published in Japan, July 2025 Published by khôra ba *** List of stockists ・tata bookshop/gallery ・VOU ・Weight Books

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