The exhibition Towards a Sea brings together the artist's explorations of landscape, a space inhabited by presences and often bordered by the sea. Seen from the window of a train, hidden by trees or houses, the sea has accompanied Nishimura since childhood. Conceived as a meditative walk, the exhibition is traversed by human and animal figures, plant and mineral motifs that overlay the marine element. In his works, as in our memories, the imaginary adds itself to the real in enigmatic representations, where places permeate and haunt the figures.
Working in oil and tempera, Nishimura transposes photographic and cinematic principles into painting, while revisiting the Western painting genres of portrait, landscape and still life. Through effects of blur and superimposition, he instils a dreamlike and evanescent dimension in the works, which tints them with a certain strangeness.