Koji Ryui (b. 1976, Kyoto, Japan; lives and works in Sydney, Australia) creates artworks that reimagine the everyday through reconfiguration of commonplace materials and found objects. Concerning the method of making and the medium itself, his sculptural propositions cherish simple gestures, subtle humour, and play that give new life to objects sometimes to the point where they start to possess traits we normally associate with sentient beings – desire, will, motivation and emotion. Locating themselves in an ethereally fluid space between material reality and human perception, his works welcome curiosity and deep imagination that suspend utilitarian sense of time and enable emergence of alternative narratives and experiences. In his work, what we conceive of as knowledge is not fixed, but slippery, temporal, and personal; an ever-evolving interpretation.