Artist: Ulala Imai
Exhibition title: Reminiscence
Venue: Union Pacific, London, UK
Date: March 31 – April 30, 2022
Photography: all images courtesy of the artist and Union Pacific, London
Bringing together 13 paintings made over the last year, Reminiscence is Japanese-artist Ulala Imai‘s second solo exhibition at the gallery. Each painting holds a close memory of hers, some which trace the subtle, slow eddying of seasons, others that capture a meal she‘s eaten at home. Ulala paints these fleeting moments to make them last, her brushes and paints capturing memories she‘d forgotten, but intended to keep. Once they‘re brought into the world, the cycle then repeats, painting like writing a diary, only she never closes the book.
Ulala Imai (b. 1982 in Kangawa, Japan) lives and works in Tokyo. Recent exhibitions include: Melody, Parco Museum, Tokyo, 2021, Amazing, Nonaka-Hill, Los Angeles, 2021, Shining in the Low Tide, Uncle Brother, New York, 2021, The Sentimental Organization of the World, galerie crevecoeur, Paris, 2020, Gathering, Union Pacific, London, 2020.
Ulala Imai, Reminiscence, 2022, exhibition view, Union Pacific, London
Ulala Imai, Reminiscence, 2022, exhibition view, Union Pacific, London
Ulala Imai, Reminiscence, 2022, exhibition view, Union Pacific, London
Ulala Imai, Reminiscence, 2022, exhibition view, Union Pacific, London
Ulala Imai, Reminiscence, 2022, exhibition view, Union Pacific, London
Ulala Imai, Reminiscence, 2022, exhibition view, Union Pacific, London
Ulala Imai, Reminiscence, 2022, exhibition view, Union Pacific, London
Ulala Imai, Reminiscence, 2022, exhibition view, Union Pacific, London
Ulala Imai, Reminiscence, 2022, exhibition view, Union Pacific, London
Ulala Imai, Reminiscence, 2022, exhibition view, Union Pacific, London
Ulala Imai, Reminiscence, 2022, exhibition view, Union Pacific, London
Ulala Imai, Reminiscence, 2022, exhibition view, Union Pacific, London
Ulala Imai, Reminiscence, 2022, exhibition view, Union Pacific, London
Ulala Imai, Reminiscence, 2022, exhibition view, Union Pacific, London
Ulala Imai, Reminiscence, 2022, exhibition view, Union Pacific, London
Ulala Imai, Reminiscence, 2022, exhibition view, Union Pacific, London
Ulala Imai, Reminiscence, 2022, exhibition view, Union Pacific, London
Ulala Imai, Reminiscence, 2022, exhibition view, Union Pacific, London
Ulala Imai, Reminiscence, 2022, exhibition view, Union Pacific, London
Ulala Imai, Reminiscence, 2022, exhibition view, Union Pacific, London
Ulala Imai, Reminiscence, 2022, exhibition view, Union Pacific, London
Ulala Imai, Reminiscence, 2022, exhibition view, Union Pacific, London
Ulala Imai, Reminiscence, 2022, exhibition view, Union Pacific, London
Ulala Imai, Reminiscence, 2022, exhibition view, Union Pacific, London
Ulala Imai, Reminiscence, 2022, exhibition view, Union Pacific, London
Ulala Imai, Reminiscence, 2022, exhibition view, Union Pacific, London
Ulala Imai, Reminiscence, 2022, exhibition view, Union Pacific, London
Ulala Imai, Reminiscence, 2022, exhibition view, Union Pacific, London
Ulala Imai, Reminiscence, 2022, exhibition view, Union Pacific, London
Ulala Imai, Reminiscence, 2022, exhibition view, Union Pacific, London
Ulala Imai, Reminiscence, 2022, exhibition view, Union Pacific, London
Ulala Imai, Reminiscence, 2022, exhibition view, Union Pacific, London
Ulala Imai, Reminiscence, 2022, exhibition view, Union Pacific, London
Ulala Imai, Reminiscence, 2022, exhibition view, Union Pacific, London
Ulala Imai, Lovers, 2022, Oil on canvas, 259 x 194 cm
Ulala Imai, Lovers, 2022, Oil on canvas, 259 x 194 cm
Ulala Imai, Lovers, 2022, Oil on canvas, 259 x 194 cm
Ulala Imai, Care, 2022, Oil on canvas, 194 x 259 cm
Ulala Imai, Care, 2022, Oil on canvas, 194 x 259 cm
Ulala Imai, Care, 2022, Oil on canvas, 194 x 259 cm
Ulala Imai, Vincent Van Dog, 2022, Oil on canvas, 227.3 x 181.8 cm
Ulala Imai, Vincent Van Dog, 2022, Oil on canvas, 227.3 x 181.8 cm
Ulala Imai, Vincent Van Dog, 2022, Oil on canvas, 227.3 x 181.8 cm
Ulala Imai, After Life, 2021, Oil on canvas, 227.3 x 181.8 cm
Ulala Imai, After Life, 2021, Oil on canvas, 227.3 x 181.8 cm
Ulala Imai, After Life, 2021, Oil on canvas, 227.3 x 181.8 cm
Ulala Imai, Mr Gardener, 2022, Oil on canvas, 116.7 x 91 cm
Ulala Imai, Holy Night, 2022, Oil on canvas, 162 x 130 cm
Ulala Imai, Gathering, 2022, Oil on canvas, 116.7 x 91 cm
Ulala Imai, Butter Toast, 2021, Oil on canvas, 22 x 27.3 cm
Ulala Imai, Dessert, 2021, Oil on canvas, 72.7 x 60.6 cm