Threshold

The exhibition "Threshold" at Crèvecœur Beaune, Paris, features new works by Yu Nishimura, including paintings, drawings, and watercolors. Nishimura's practice explores the intersection of figuration and abstraction, often drawing inspiration from photography and personal memory. His works are characterized by a dense visual temperature and a fluid execution, blurring distinctions between genres like portraiture and landscape, and merging representation with abstraction.

This exhibition highlights Nishimura's recent exploration of painting directly from photographs in his archive, pushing beyond the frame to create new visual territories. Works like the diptych "Offering" demonstrate this process, where a photographic memory of a place is expanded through painted recollection. The artist's engagement with memory is not about singular moments but about its adaptive incompleteness, activated through the act of painting. The exhibition also emphasizes drawing as a primal, bodily act of creation, serving as a source code for his broader practice.