Koji Ryui (b. 1976, Kyoto, Japan, lives and works in Sydney, Australia) creates artworks that recontextualise everyday materials and found objects. With animist sensibility, minimal gestures and subtle humour, his sculptural propositions invite a compassionate and playful contemplation of the ordinary that celebrates the ambiguous space between material and perception.

A collector of the commonplace, the shelves of Ryui’s studio are filled with objects and materials that remain static until they are given a new life: blurring the border between animate and inanimate, seen and unseen, Ryui draws parallels between objects and ideas, elaborating on the cosmic potential of ordinary objects and the way we perceive them.