"Bringing together a wide-ranging sculptural practice alongside a new body of paintings, the exhibition traces the artist's movement through places, materials, and atmospheres-and how form slowly emerges through her hands. SCENERY IN THE PROCESS OF BEING FORMED reflects Rokkaku's experience of letting landscapes enter her daily life: the light of a new city, the textures of a market, the rhythm of a coastline. These impressions accumulate quietly, becoming sensations she tends to with the same instinctive, tactile approach"
"Rokkaku works without mediation-paint spread by hand, clay shaped through touch, fabrics gathered, sewn piece by piece, glass guided through fingertip gestures - allowing each material to register the immediacy of her encounter. The works appear gradually, as if formed at the pace of an emotion revealing itself. The glass works, created early 2025 in Murano at the Berengo Studio, hold soft traces of her gestures within their colored surfaces, as though the movement of her hand had settled into the molten material."
"Nearby, a fabric installation inspired by Seoul's Namsan hill unfolds from threads and fragments collected at Dongdaemun Market and assembled by hand, its layered textures echoing the density and verticality of the city. Ceramic sculptures made during her stay on Mallorca carry the warmth of their Mediterranean origin; their contours feel shaped by touch, as if the porous clay retained the memory of the artist's palms and fingertips."
KÖNIG GALERIE presents Ayako Rokkaku's fourth solo exhibition SCENERY IN THE PROCESS OF BEING FORMED in the Nave of St. Agnes. The presentation pairs sculptural work with a new series of paintings to follow the artist's movement through places, materials, and atmospheres as form emerges through touch. Rokkaku applies paint by hand, shapes clay with fingertips, gathers fabrics from market fragments, and guides molten glass with fingertip gestures so each material records immediacy. Works were produced in Murano, assembled from Dongdaemun Market textiles, crafted in Mallorca, and cast in Berlin; paintings suggest landscapes without fixing them.
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