Yumi Nakata "Small Window"

WISH LESS gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by the artist Yumi Nakata. Nakata’s new body of work, titled Small Widow, is a series of oil paintings based on screenshots and their compositional arrangements. Nakata’s practice is driven by a desire to generate alternative ways of seeing from private, closed images. She begins by creating digital collages from the vast number of personal photographs accumulated through everyday life. These collages are then dramatically enlarged on a computer screen, where she repeatedly captures new screenshots. From this semi-automated process emerges a collection of images that is, in itself, almost devoid of meaning. By deliberately selecting, arranging, and translating these images into paint, Nakata separates the original significance of the source imagery from the tactile presence of the painted surface, creating works in which multiple modes of vision unfold simultaneously. Images accumulated as records of everyday life are transformed and reconstructed through repeated processes before ultimately taking the form of paintings. Through the Small Window series, Nakata invites viewers into a pictorial world where multiple ways of seeing coexist, encouraging us to reconsider the very act of looking.