Kayokoyuki Tokio

Bukia Vakhania (Tbilisi) and Kayokoyuki (Tokyo) present a joint booth featuring works by David Apakidze and Yohei Imamura. Though working in distinct cultural and visual languages, both transform traditional techniques into contemporary, embodied forms. Their practices are rooted in memory and the body, yet follow different trajectories: Imamura builds meditative, sculptural “ink landscapes” through a unique silkscreen process that accumulates thousands of ink layers, while Apakidze assembles stained glass and found materials into intimate structures shaped by queer identity and cultural memory. One works through ritual and accumulation; the other through iconography and narrative.

Yohei Imamura was born in 1979 in Fukuoka, Japan, and currently lives and works in Kanagawa. He received his M.F.A. from Tokyo Zokei University, Tokyo. Yohei has presented his work in: "New Space Preview" at KAYOKOYUKI, Tokyo, 2025; solo show "two peaks" at KAYOKOYUKI, Tokyo, 2023; "The Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2022" at Kochi, India, 2022; "Aichi Triennale 2019 -Taming Y/Our Passion" at Aichi, 2019; "The universe consists of dots and lines" at Fujisawa City Art Space, Kanagawa, 2019; "CSP2" at Kuwasawa Design School, Tokyo, 2014; "Marsupials" curated by Taro Izumi at TALION GALLERY, Tokyo, 2012; "camaboco" at Tokyo Zokei University, Tokyo, 2010; and "Draw print book" at esplanade, Singapore, 2008.