YOKOI FINE ART Kiuchi 2nd Bldg. 6F 1-4-3 Higashiazabu Minato-ku 106-0044 Tokyo Japon
"Utopia of despair", "importance of futility", "beauty of distortion", and
"actuality of nothingness": do they exist at all? They suggest existence of verity and introduce you to my world. By Miwa Nishimura
Nishimura has been in France for 10 years. She held her first solo exhibition in Japan at YOKOI FINE ART this March (Around The World). After that, she attracted a great deal of attention by joining the group exhibition at Bunkamura Gallery in June and being featured by AIRFRANCE MAGAZINE at the same time.
This exhibition is composed of about 10 works selected from ones featured by AIRFRANCE MAGAZINE and from her previous series (Paradis Perdu, Instance, Around The World and Emakimono).
"Paradis Perdu"
She says,
It was when I was pursuing chromatic abstraction on canvas that I encountered photography. It came as an unexpected crossing. Since then, my focus has been on the interaction between painting and photography. I bring in diaphanousness from the former, and opaqueness from the latter. This approach helps me to draw external phenomena close to me, just like people use fishing rods to pull out creatures out of the sea.
The series of Paradis Perdu was created from this directly opposed concepts.
Nishimura acts koropokkur and they exist in the lost paradise.
She adopts the technique of “meta-illusion” to visualize something invisible which is hidden on the surface but exists essentially.
She puzzles us by the meta-illusion. In other words, she visualizes invisibles and something which must not exist in actual. In the result, we have an experience her spiritual and marvel world. Her message implies the existence of the verity. So please be careful to read the message, which does not end up as a fairy tale.
"Instance"
In the series, Nishimura focuses on the moment of one day, one place. She captures the miniature world with a car, bicycle etc. She sets up “on the road” as a stage and tries to stimulate the control and effect of the recognition from the affordance when one is walking outside. It may change your point of view.
"Around The World"
The exhibitions held this March and June contained 6 works of this series. Nishimura compares the woman’s body to the world. We can see the all sorts of the scenes of the human relations on the body. The theme is the long and endless journey of the consciousness around the world. This series will be continued.
"Emakimono"
Emakimono series is inspired by Japanese picture scroll. Nishimura executed 2 works of this series and has not been completed yet. “The sea of a reality” and “the sea of a picture” cross each other and it enables us to come and go between a reality and an invention.