Kuki makes symbols that stay with you. A visual artist and designer working across identity, installation and print, he is a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI), one of the world’s leading networks of graphic designers and visual artists. His work plays with the way colour, shape and symbols can instantly grab our attention—and sometimes say more than words ever could.
He is the creator of Ghosts of Tomorrow, an ongoing project presented in cities across Europe and Asia. The project brings together bold, graphic flags inspired by things that are disappearing around us: nature, attention, memories, resources, even the things we leave behind in the digital world.
For Kinomural, Kuki brings Ghosts of Tomorrow into the exhibition space. The starting point is simple: the flag. We all know what a flag is supposed to do. It tells us where we belong, what we stand for, who is on our side. Kuki takes that familiar symbol and turns it upside down. His flags belong to no country and represent no movement. Instead, they become signs for things that are slowly slipping away.
There is no dramatic imagery here, no disaster movie effect, no attempt to shock. The flags are deliberately simple. They might catch your eye from across the room, make you stop for a second, and only then make you wonder what you are looking at.
Ghosts of Tomorrow is about disappearance, but it is also about noticing. What do we stop seeing when we see too much? What gets lost while we are busy looking somewhere else?
Come closer. Take a look. You might recognise some of these ghosts.
