KAYOKOYUKI is pleased to present This Morning’s Seasoning, a solo exhibition by Ayako Ohno.

Throughout her career, Ayako Ohno has consistently worked with stone to create sculpture. Drawing on the natural landscapes around her, including plants and insects, as well as everyday actions, the figures of people close to her, and all manner of phenomena embedded in daily life, she has translated these subjects into form. Despite working with stone, a hard and heavy material, Ohno’s sculptures achieve a sense of lightness and expansiveness. This quality has become a defining feature of her work and has developed in a distinctive direction over the course of her practice.

In recent years, among the familiar subjects around her, Ohno has focused particularly on her own family. She sees family as “a relationship that doesn’t change, yet keeps changing and being renewed.” This perspective is closely connected to her broader approach to making: how, over long periods of time, through both art and…