OBJECT

OBJECT draws from Yuka Kobayashi’s 2020–2024 painting archive. The title reflects duality: object as form, objection as resistance—positioning painting as both archive 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 exist on this world.”
By digitally extending textures, the works transcend flatness, inviting viewers to see painting as a living, shifting form that challenges perception.