YU NISHIMURA – DISLOCATION
2026-04-13Throughout the development of Dislocation, Yu Nishimura articulated an approach to painting grounded in temporal, spatial, and psychological displacement. Across the exhibition, images emerge through layers of revision, interruption, and residual marks, producing compositions that resist fixed resolution and instead remain suspended between memory, perception and reconstruction.
Place and landscape are strongly present, yet rather than depicting specific locations, the paintings allow the gaze and the body to enter the landscape itself — moving closer to the subject and then withdrawing again, gradually shaping a felt sense of space. This shifting proximity produces a quiet recalibration of the viewer’s position where distance is never stable but continuously negotiated. Figures, landscapes, objects and architectural details appear partially detached, occupying uncertain spaces that feel simultaneously familiar and remote.
Opposite – Quiet Sun, 2026
Exhibition runs through to August 22nd, 2026
Sadie Coles HQ
62 Kingly Street
W1B 5QN
London
