LOUGHTON TO LAMBOURNE END
Yuki Nishimura


Allotrope Press, édition n°13
Format 210 x 150 mm
Lancé le 4 décembre 2014 à la librairie X MARKS THE BÖKSHIP à Londres

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Loughton to Lambourne End est le résultat d'une performance d'un jeune artiste japonnais basé à Londres, Yuki Nishimura. J'ai été invité par Keef Winter, directeur des éditions Allotrope Press, à travailler en collaboration avec Yuki à la création de ce livre. J'ai photographié sa performance et édité le livre.


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.

Keef Winter, Extrait du texte Negociations, introduction au livre

LOUGHTON TO LAMBOURNE END