Distancing

Distancing brings together new works by four artists – Kei Imazu, Juree Kim, Nosik Lim and Maria Taniguchi – whose practices explore how images and matter come into focus over time. The exhibition proposes a mode of perceiving that privileges distance and duration: sensing and observing from a step back. Here, standing aside and dwelling in stillness does not obscure perception, but recalibrates focus. Rather than resisting speed, the exhibition traces the point at which sensation catches up with us – when that which escapes immediate grasp begins to settle through distance and time.

Across painting and sculpture, the artists approach this recalibration through distinct formal and material strategies – repetition, the slow transformation of clay, layered opacity and the juxtaposition of disparate image-worlds. Themes emerge and commingle as viewers move through the exhibition, invited to pause, shift their footing and reconsider the conditions under which seeing takes place. In delaying interpretation, Distancing attends to experiences that resist articulation – residual sensations that remain after an image has been ‘understood’ and that insist on being encountered again, more slowly, and at a remove.