ARCH is pleased to announce the exhibition Sleep Walk by Yu Nishimura (b. 1982 Kanagawa).

Yu Nishimura lives and works in Tokyo. In 2004 he graduated from Tama Art University, Oil Painting Course, Department of Fine Arts, Faculty of Art and Design.
 
Depicting universal mental landscapes with personal language, Yu Nishimura infuses his work with animism that echoes both Japanese anime and street photography. There are no defined themes of gender, race, or politics, but the work decants a poetry and passion for the world that ultimately becomes a political act of resistance, a rereading of the universe around us, recounting the aura of everyday life by placing it in an emotional and dreamlike pictorial space.
 
Yu Nishimura often refers, in his painting practice to the notion of "portrait", referring to, beyond human portraiture, to a quality in various painted situations such as a person walking alone in a forest, animals doing different things, a car speeding away, landscape elements. One of the characteristics of his paintings is that they are constructed with overlaid layers of painterly elements, such as contours of a figure and planes of color, all overlapped with slight misalignment. The image thus becomes fluid and presents afterimage-like effects.

Opening: May 29th (7-9PM)
Exhibition dates: May 29th – September 14th, 2024