humanité lab　NISHIMURA Ai　solo exhibition　－Reprise－

Galerie Tokyo Humanité is pleased to present NISHIMURA Ai's solo exhibition of new works entitled Reprise. Nishimura’s paintings have an solemn atmosphere like religious paintings with theatrical backgrounds. Women in her paintings often wear black dress or cover their faces with white cloth. They close their eyes and seem to immerse themselves in something or to play their roles as if they want to avert their eyes from something. Nishimura’s story incorporates contradictions of a society she feels, and it can be also found in our drama called daily life.

Nishimura (b. 1988) received M.A. in Japanese Painting from Musashino Art University (Tokyo) in 2019. In the same year, she had the first solo exhibition in our gallery and this is the forth exhibition. Her recent exhibitions include Nishimura Ai: silent drama (2022, Galerie Tokyo Humanité), The 40th Ueno Royal Museum Grand Prize Exhibition (2022, Tokyo), and Nishimura Ai: saintism (2021, Yoh Art Gallery, Tokyo)