Artist Support Program | Kurumi Ono, Still Life

Dates｜　November 5, 2024 (Tue) – November 16, 2024 (Sat) 11am – 7pm (Closed Sun. and Mon.)
Venue｜　Space√K　（√K Contemporary B1F）

We are pleased to announce that Kurumi Ono’s Exhibition Still Life will be on display in our basement Space√K from November 5th through 16th as part of our ongoing Artist Support Project.
A graduate of the Central St. Martins BA of Fine Arts, Ono is currently based in Japan, primarily creating works that are based on a theme that invokes “printed photos buried in soil”.
Within a world where things are constantly shifting and changing, humans have always had a desire for some sort of permanency. By using photos, which represent a cross section of the world, and embedding and burying them in soil, Ono captures the changes in nature brought about by wind, rain, or fungi, thereby expressing its impermanence and fleeting beauty.

Still Life

I am interested in the relationship between change and the human desire for perpetuation, and use the technique of “burying photographs in the soil” in my work.
Our craving to hold onto things, even though everything’s in a constant state of flux.
The act of taking a photograph may also arise from this desire.
By pressing the shutter, we can capture a moment in time as a photograph.
However, when the photograph is buried in the ever-changing soil, it is affected by the moisture and fungi in the soil and changes from moment to moment, leaving traces of undulation, new patterns, and changes in colour.
For this exhibition, I focused on motifs frequently depicted in still life paintings. While traditional still life paintings depict fruits, flowers, and other objects in an attempt to hold on to the moment forever, I use natural objects such as soil and ice to add variety to the fixed image of motionless life.
Facing the transitions of nature may highlight the human desire for preservation and reflect the essence of life.

Kurumi Ono

Artist | Kurumi Ono

1995 Born in Tochigi, Japan.
Graduated from the University of the Arts London, Central Saint Martins BA Fine Art.
All living things will eventually return to soil, and everything that has form will crumble and disappear. However, humanity has always had the desire to resist this transmutation, to keep something forever. I started working with the interest in such flux and the human thirst for preservation. I am attempting to visualise the relationship between change and preservation by burying photographs that are created by pressing the shutter button to hold the moment of an event in soil, which is in constant flux.

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