Urot Esak

Venue1 : Studio P.R.O Scent : sync (Eau de Parfum) Artist : Monet Terumoto Shuma Macdonald Urot Esak Noise Sakie Takasu *** Venue2 : Early spring Scent : equipoise (Eau de Parfum) Artist : Ai Ezaki Eito Shinozaki Audrey Fondecave Kurama Abeta Tohru Matsushita *** Visual Artwork by Monet Terumoto & Ai Ezaki *** 下高井戸の実験スタジオStudio P.R.Oと永福町のギャラリーショップearly springによる共同企画展 “Colors of Scent” を7/22（水）より開催いたします。本展は甲州街道と神田川を挟んで約1kmの距離で隣り合うふたつの空間を巡る2拠点同時開催のグループショーです。本展のテーマは［香り］。スペースごとに調香したオリジナルのフレグランスを起点に、その香りのイメージから作家たちがそれぞれの解釈で作品を制作。創意が重なり合い、それぞれの空間に［香りの景色］となって立ち顕れます。 鑑賞にあたり、会場ではペーパーディップしたサンプルを来場者の方にお配りします。［香り］という見ることのできない身体的な感覚に結びついた創作表現を、互いのスペースを行き来しながら、より立体的な鑑賞体験として楽しんでいただければと思います。盛夏の10日間。両会場とも涼しくしてお待ちしています。 We are pleased to announce the joint exhibition “Colors of Scent,” starting on Wednesday, July 22nd, co-hosted by the experimental studio Studio P.R.O. in Shimo-Takaido and the gallery shop early spring in Eifukucho. This exhibition is a dual-venue group show where visitors are invited to tour two neighboring spaces located approximately 1 km apart, separated by the Koshu-kaido Avenue and the Kanda River. The theme of this exhibition is [Scent]. Using original fragrances specially blended for each space as a starting point, participating artists have created artworks based on their own interpretations of those scents. Their overlapping creativity will manifest and emerge as [Landscapes of Scent] within each respective space. To enhance your viewing experience, we will be distributing paper-dipped fragrance samples to visitors at the venues. We hope you will enjoy a more multi-dimensional, immersive experience of these creative expressions—which are deeply connected to the invisible, physical sensation of scent—as you travel back and forth between the two spaces. For 10 days in the height of summer, we look forward to welcoming you with both venues kept pleasantly cool.

L: image 1593 b mod 910 x 727 x 30 mm Cotton, direct print, wood panel, water, stamp 2026 R: image 1711 b mod 910 x 727 x 30 mm Cotton, direct print, wood panel, water, stamp 2026

image 1622 b mod 910 x 727 x 30 mm Cotton, direct print, wood panel, water, stamp 2026

My two picture works on the right wall L: image 1593 b mod 910 x 727 x 30 mm Cotton, direct print, wood panel, water, stamp 2026 R: image 1711 b mod 910 x 727 x 30 mm Cotton, direct print, wood panel, water, stamp 2026

image 1762 b mod 1000 x 803 x 30 mm Cotton, direct print, stretcher bars, water 2026

image 1790 b mod 1000 x 803 x 30 mm Cotton, direct print, stretcher bars, water 2026

[News (June. 2026)] From Saturday, June 13 to Sunday, June 28, 2026, the exhibition “khôra 場 Exhibition ‘2’ ” will be held on the 3rd floor of VOU in Kyoto. “khôra 場 Exhibition ‘2’ ” Venue: VOU (3rd Floor) Dates: June 13 (Sat) – June 28 (Sun), 2026 Hours: 13:00–19:00 Closed: Thursdays Admission: Free *** khôra 場: Urot Esak Chihiro Honda Toru Kase ose élavy *** The studio “khôra 場,” located in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, Japan will hold its first exhibition in Kyoto on the 3rd floor of VOU. Following their show at tata bookshop/gallery last July, this will be the studio's second exhibition. Launched in August 2022, “khôra 場” is a studio composed of four members: Urot Esak, Chihiro Honda, Toru Kase and ose élavy. In this exhibition, Urot Esak and Chihiro Honda will showcase their artworks, while T-shirts created in collaboration between Toru Kase and VOU will be available for purchase simultaneously. Additionally, books published by the studio last year—Chihiro Honda’s 単位 / cell (YYY PRESS / khôra 場) and The Island, Parts, as well as Urot Esak's image1–1,095 b mod—along with other studio merchandise, will also be on sale. Please take this opportunity to come and see. For this exhibition, Chihiro Honda will present new works, Room #301 and Room #808. As the latest additions to a series driven by an ongoing interest in “boxes,” these pieces will focus on interior spaces. Meanwhile, Urot Esak will present new “pictures” related to memory, continuing the themes explored in last year’s solo exhibition image 253, 449, 665, 1173 b mod (The White / Tokyo, 2025) and the art fair EASTEAST_ (CON_ / Tokyo, 2025). Furthermore, Toru Kase has collaborated with the VOU team to produce T-shirts based on the themes of “ride” and “music.”

image 1367 b mod 2,240 x 1,620 x 30 mm Canvas, direct print, 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)

L: image 665 b mod 1,940 x 2,606 x 30 mm Canvas, direct print, stretcher bars, staples 2025 R: image 449 b mod 1,940 x 2,606 x 30 mm Canvas, direct print, stretcher bars, staples 2025

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

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

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

image 253 b mod 1,940 x 2,606 x 30 mm Canvas, direct print, 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.