Early explorations into memory as physical matter. Wire, paper, and handmade forms become vessels for what cannot be spoken.
The line becomes architecture. Paths, routes, and passages map psychological terrain — the space between inside and outside.
The body's outer layer as testimony. Wrinkles, folds, and scars appear as wandering lines on the surface of the material. Leather, paper, and wire trace the marks left by time, emotion, and encounter. The wound is also a record.
Where the journey arrives: pure psychological presence. Bronze, wire, and restrained painting distil years of practice into stillness. The figure exists between someone and no one.
Mariko Kumon began studying art at the age of 53 after a long life outside the art world. This late beginning profoundly shapes her work.
The lines that appear in her sculptures bend, intertwine, and wander — echoing the unpredictable paths of life. Conflict often becomes the starting point of my work. Yet once I begin, the process turns into a kind of wandering.
She follows intuition rather than a fixed plan.
The lines that emerge bend, hesitate, and intertwine — much like the uncertain paths of life. Kumon is a contemporary artist based in Barcelona, whose work investigates the psychological tension between perception and inner reality. She explores moments of stillness, hesitation, and introspection — the silent states that exist beneath the visible surface of human presence. Using a deliberately reduced visual language, characterized by restrained color, simplified forms, and spatial emptiness, she removes narrative certainty and directs attention toward presence and psychological density.
Exhibition documentation, studio process, and artist talks
Exhibition at Times Square, New York
Installation view
Featured in Artist Talk Magazine
Exhibition documentation
Artist talk and conference
Studio process
Work documentation
Opening of first solo show in Barcelona
