Work by Yui Nagashima.
Press release, April 2023
In this exhibition, the artist's personal room is used as the setting for paintings and video works that present a three-dimensional view of conceptual space through events caused by 'flat landscapes', 'recognition of actual space through bodily sensations' and 'mistrust of the body'.
The landscapes we see in everyday life tend to be ordinary and flat. However, unexpected events occasionally occur in everyday life. For example, when we should have grabbed a cup of coffee after making our daily coffee, but it slipped through our fingers and dropped the cup on the floor. We immediately kneel on the floor and try to wipe up the spreading liquid. There will be a feeling of the floor that we would not normally be aware of, and the distance from standing upright to kneeling on the floor. We know we are in a 'space’ when encountering these unexpected events. This 'space', unlike actual space, is conceptual and amorphous, and can finally be perceived using all of our senses, not just our sense of sight. At the moment when our everyday life is switched by an unexpected event, this conceptual space rises up and can be seen in 3D by capturing every day and the extraordinary at the same time.
In other words, stereoscopic vision of conceptual space means using events that suddenly appear in our flat everyday landscape, the extraordinary in everyday, as clues to explore our periphery from a broader perspective and with a more realistic physical sensation. With the spread of the internet and smartphones, so many images and incidents are generated within the glass screen and shared by vast numbers of people that we feel a sense of déjà vu before all things become stale. In such a modern age, it is of great significance to present as painting the rooms of individuals who have their own unique images that are hard to share with others because they are so close to the individual.
The exhibiting artist works mainly in Tokyo and is currently studying and producing works at the Sculpture School of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Due to the artist's Korean origins in Japan, her work uses various methods of expression, not only painting, but is consistently linked to an awareness of the boundaries and space of the concept of country, and an interest in Asian history.
Exhibition period: May 10-14, 2023.
Opening hours:
May 10, from 14-19
May 11, from 11-19
May 12, from 11-19
May 13, from 14-19
May 14, from 11-19
Free entry.