Sep 11th (Fri.) - Oct 3rd (Sat.)

"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.