This show features artworks from two striking series: Layer Drawings and Stripe Drawings. Nakanishi’s Layer Drawings consist in a sequence of images shot at regular intervals; they materialize the changes that a simple situation gradually goes through. The viewer is caught in the flow of the superposed pictures, whose succession suffuses the experience of vision with a supernatural energy. The space between two plexiglas frames is not perceived as void anymore: it is an opening into which the next image can expand and move. The expression of « time-space » had never been so vividly embodied.

On the other hand, Nakanishi’s Stripe Drawings set the concepts of full and empty space in contrast. These artworks are made of an infinite number of lines manually traced from left to right. Together, they make a pattern appear – or two patterns, one black, the other one white. Opposites are reunited and create a consistent whole: light and shadow reveal and define each other, like what happens during an eclipse, thereby opening a new dimension in the perception process.

Nobuhiro Nakanishi was born in Fukuoka (JP) in 1976. His works are featured in the permanent collections of Tokyo’s Mori Museum, among others. They explore the relationship between nature and the human body. Nakanishi presents and represents sensory perception as time and movement. Through his use of space and light, he seeks to outline the intangible, to embody the void, to contain the ephemeral.

Courtesy of Galerie Lot 10