Look at an image of Aiku Kurotaki’s wool sculpture “Human 1” (2024), and it’s clear that the young Kawasaki-born artist is proficient at weaving. But if you continue to follow the thread, so to speak, the small worlds woven into his work begin to unravel.
Kurotaki has a penchant for looking beyond the surface of things and zooming in on the structures contained within them. Having first taken an interest in the composition of fabrics, Kurotaki was training in textile design at Tokyo Zokei University when he turned his attention to the human form and started questioning what lies under the skin — that is, what constitutes a human.