Allotrope press edition thirteen ‘Loughton to Lambourne End’

04/12/2014

publishedby Allotrope press

edited by Leïla Pereira

texts from Bernard Walsh & Keef Winter

 

edition of 100
36 pp full colour

 

Performed and launched at X Marks Bökship

 

Yuki Nishimura looks to activate and give life to inanimate material, almost in a spiritual way, like the ranked relics of Catholicism in their various object-orientated worship. Nishimura says ‘I want to talk with concrete; ‘I want to become a piece of furniture’; ‘I want to lose myself and become a thing, just another thing’. So perhaps then it is more reductive, Nishimura wants to level the playing field, a kind of fatalistic approach to biology, matter and the ephemerality of life. But there is levity in his approach that lifts his work out of the mundane into an energy-filled exciting series of actions. Here, in ‘Loughton to Lambourne End’, we are set into a curious swimming pool locale deep in Epping Forest, Northeast of London. Simply, Nishimura’s objective is to navigate the length of a large outdoor swimming pool while talking to a sunken piece of concrete and aluminium.