Shota Nakamura
each passing day
The title is “each passing day”, which in Japanese probably will be ’mainichi (everyday)’. Since the pandemic started, I’ve been seeing very limited amount of people, for the last two years. I spend most of the day, or most of the time, by myself. When I spent a lot of time in the studio, painting all the time, and had more time thinking about painting, I began to notice the sense of ‘renewal of time’ when the painting was finished, as if the time had stopped from the beginning until the end of the painting process. And when I look back after the painting is completed, I realise that a great deal of time has passed. I began to wonder what each of those days was all about, and that’s how I came up with the title.
Shota Nakamura, 2022
Interview
This is Nakamura’s second solo exhibition with Peres Projects in our Berlin gallery. His solo exhibition, Walking, was recently on view at the Ilwoo Space in Seoul. Other solo exhibitions include Blind, Morioka Shoten, Tokyo, Mai, grüner Wald, Gallery Trax, Yamanashi and Play Of Sunlight, AGORA Collective, Berlin. In addition, Nakamura has exhibited in a number of international group exhibitions Male Nudes: a salon from 1800 to 2021, Mendes Wood DM, Sao Paulo, Rose Is A Rose Is A Rose, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York and In Bloom, Belsunce Projects, Marseille.
Exhibition walkthrough
In Nakamura’s most self-reflexive exhibition to date, each passing day is an expression of how we make, encounter and hold images. Made up of mostly oil paintings, the works weave together an analogy between creating images and imagining worlds. In reflecting on the image research that is so critical to his practice, Nakamura’s paintings digest the churning of our present. His response is a calm stillness, relieving the viewer from the relentless influx of images and media.