Mari Yokoichi
Stockholm
Mari Yokoichi is a artist and photographer whose work spans across various mediums. In addition to her 2-dimensional work, she also explores sculptural forms.
MessageMari Yokoichi is an abstract artist and photographer working across mixed media painting, sculpture, and photography.
She has completed extensive art and photography studies at several Swedish institutions, including Lunnevad Folk High School, Falkenberg School of Art, Bäckedal Folk High School (Photography), and Katrineberg Folk High School (Visual Communication, including a project semester). This diverse educational background supports an interdisciplinary approach that moves fluidly between physical and digital processes.
Yokoichi has presented her work in a solo exhibition at Galleri Sandelin and a duo exhibition at Galleri Hind in Stockholm, and has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Sweden and internationally, including Planket, Centrum för fotografi (Salong CFF), Galleri Bellman, Galleri Sander & NP33, and an exhibition in Tokyo through Tokyo Open Art | The Holy Art. Her photographic project Waiting waiting, passing by has been published, and her work has appeared in Docu Magazine.
Born in Japan and raised in Sweden, Yokoichi lives and works in Sweden.
Statement
My practice explores materiality, transformation, and process, focusing on how meaning emerges through making rather than predetermined outcomes. I work with mixed media painting and sculpture, occasionally extending into photography and installation. I am interested in the ways materials interact, accumulate, and shift — allowing form to develop through curiosity, experimentation, and attention.
I work in an exploratory way, often allowing one medium to lead into another. A photograph may serve as a starting point for digital transformation, or a work may develop through the physical handling of materials. Natural elements create structure in painting or are used directly in sculptural forms. These organic materials are often combined with bright neon color and spray paint, influenced by graffiti and urban visual culture.
Process plays a central role in my work. I allow materials, gestures, and chance encounters to guide each piece, embracing uncertainty. My aim is not to arrive at a single conclusion, but to create work that invites slowness, attentiveness, and trust in the process, offering viewers quiet moments of reflection through material presence and transformation.
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