SPACE 002 — Jun Araki
Tokyo, graffiti and the manga fragments that survive being painted over. This page brings together everything needed to cover SPACE 002: the artwork, the story, the disclosure, and downloadable assets for editorial and press use.
BETWEEN THE LINES
Jun Araki's work exists somewhere between the street and the gallery.
Based in Tokyo, Araki builds large-scale mixed-media compositions from fragments of manga, graffiti, spray paint, hand-drawn marks and layers of abstraction. Faces disappear beneath paint. Panels are interrupted. Lines move across one another without asking permission.
The work carries the visual density of Tokyo without attempting to reproduce the city literally.
For Araki, the collision is the point. What begins with recognizable imagery is repeatedly covered, cut apart and reconstructed until the original reference becomes something else entirely.
A NOTE ON THIS PROJECT
Jun Araki does not exist.
He is a fictional artist created and creatively directed by ISHLVLSTUDIOS Generative Lab for SPACE. His likeness, his studio, his voice in interview and the artwork attributed to him were produced through generative image and film systems, directed toward a single, coherent practice.
Every image in this feature was generated, then selected, rejected, sequenced and edited through a human editorial process — the same judgment SPACE applies to any artist it chooses to feature. Nothing here is autonomous. All of it is directed.
SPACE presents the practice with the same seriousness it would give any working artist. Jun may be fictional. The creative decisions, authorship and work presented here are not.
SELECTED WORKS
EDITORIAL IMAGERY
SIGNATURE FILM
Jun signing the completed work — the closing gesture of the SPACE 002 practice.
SPACE
SPACE is an independent digital publication exploring fashion, music, art, and cinema through generative storytelling.
Built at the intersection of culture and emerging technology, SPACE uses artificial intelligence as a creative medium to develop original editorials, narratives, imagery, characters, environments, and visual worlds.
Human direction remains at the center of the process. Every story begins with an idea—research, cultural context, creative direction, writing, and visual development—before generative tools are used to bring that world to life.
THE FULL FEATURE
The complete SPACE 002 / Jun Araki feature — cover, editorial essay, studio process, interview, gallery context, and the full selected-works catalogue.
CREDITS & EDITORIAL USAGE
Assets on this page are made available for editorial and press use in connection with coverage of SPACE 002. Please credit as listed above, and note that Jun Araki is a fictional artist — do not present him as a real person.
CONTACT
For interviews, additional assets, or any questions about SPACE 002.
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One ZIP with the selected works, editorial imagery, the signature film, the SPACE 002 PDF, and a plain-text summary of the project, disclosure, and credits.
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