U-ku Brings Solo Exhibition Between the Lines to Omotesando From October 24
The show puts a painter who builds each surface from accidental bleeding and deliberate layering into a commercial gallery space, and it asks the viewer to read the margins rather than the subject.
Reporting from 1 source: ASCII.jp.
Abstract painter U-ku will hold a solo exhibition, Between the Lines, at THE GALLERY OMOTESANDO from Saturday, October 24 to Sunday, November 15, 2026. The show turns on what U-ku calls the invisible things between people, between past and present, and between chance and choice. Announced works include Between the Lines, Watashi o Hakobu Mono, Ever Silence Has a Will, and Yohaku -kan-.
U-ku was born in Hyogo Prefecture in 1989 and graduated from Kobe College. His process starts with the accidental spread of watercolor, then layers acrylic and foil over it, so each work is a negotiation between what happened on its own and what he chose.
The exhibition centers on that same gap. A recurring silhouette of a girl with no facial expression connects the figurative and the abstract, and U-ku describes it as a surface onto which the viewer's feelings are projected. The show runs from Saturday, October 24 to Sunday, November 15, 2026.
- Between the Lines
- Watashi o Hakobu Mono
- Ever Silence Has a Will
- Yohaku -kan-
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