Object - Yuka Kobayashi

OBJECT / OBJECTION draws from Yuka Kobayashi’s 2020–2024 painting archive. 

The title reflects duality: object as form, objection as resistance—positioning painting as botharchive and argument.

 With a minimalist approach and “non-colors,” Kobayashi reveals each work’s structure. “Removing the color information allows us to consider the anonymity and fascination of intention projected onto the canvas through a monochrome mask, and to re-evaluate the relationship between color and the intention behind it in the painting.”

Stripped to their “skeletons,” the paintings become records of presence and motion. “Painting can be a recordable medium for transcription of body movement which traces how we existon this world.” By digitally extending textures, the works transcend flatness, inviting viewers to see painting as a living, shifting form that challenges perception."

• 117 pages
• Black an white image on light blue colour background
• A5 portrait (148mm x 210 mm)