While known as a parkour athlete, ZEN is also recognized as an artist. His latest series Urban Equivalence will be shown at DESIGNART TOKYO 2025. Created in Los Angeles after Bangkok and Paris, the 18 works—including the event’s key visual—will debut in Japan and be available for purchase.
The city is shaped by human hands, yet reshapes the human.
Ordered streets and systems offer comfort,
but dull the body’s improvisation, flatten perception, homogenize awareness.
My practice resists this paradox: dismantling prescribed meanings of architecture
and recasting the relation between object and self on equal ground.
To regard the city not as backdrop or function but to encounter it again
is to question—at its core—the relation between city and human.
By unsettling the inorganic illusion of “stability,”
a field of uncertainty opens, where city and human mirror life back into one another.