LEIKO IKEMURA – EL JARDÍN NOCTURNO
2026-02-23The viewer enters the garden on the ground floor, where three sculptures are nestled in an undulating field of green stone. Ikemura’s central and imposing Rocket Girl (2024) squats menacingly, being at once a symbol of chaotic, destructive forces, but also a figure for protective good, here guarding the two cat-like statues of Miko and Mikolina in the corner. Existing between genders and species, these three bronzes are also seemingly emerging from their terrain, sculpted through the primordial energy of the earth.
A sense of prehistoric time also bubbles up from the inky depths of a lake in the nearby painted Nightscape (2024), while upstairs the twilit garden flowers into daytime with pink blooms in a suite of rose-tinted canvases and gesture-filled fields of marks that coalesce into magical, light-filled landscapes, punctuated by Ikemura’s cascading haikus in Japanese script. These poems have been translated into English below, running right to left from the doorway.
Opposite – Nightscape, 2024
Exhibition runs through to April 11th, 2026
Lisson Gallery
67 Lisson Street
NW1 5DA
London
