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Yuko Kinouchi is a visual artist working between Tallinn and Tokyo, whose practice weaves together low-tech mechanical systems, video, painting, and installation. Through these mediums, she constructs fictional frameworks and quasi-documentary situations that emerge from her ongoing sociological and environmental research. Often engaging with posthuman theory, she investigates the boundaries between the human and the non-human—most recently focusing on zombies as speculative figures that challenge conventional understandings of life, agency, and materiality.
Her works frequently incorporate playful yet precise mechanical movements, creating an aesthetic that balances fragility, humour, and conceptual rigor. By reconfiguring everyday objects, inherited commodities, and natural materials, Kinouchi proposes alternative ways of sensing and narrating the world around us.
During her residency at SODAS 2123, Yuko will continue developing a new kinetic sculpture project that interlaces reused consumer goods, organic elements, and handcrafted parts. Through this process, she aims to explore how movement, repetition, and material assemblage can reveal hybrid forms of presence and animate relationships beyond the human.
The activities of SODAS 2123 are financed by the Lithuanian Council for Culture and Vilnius city municipality.