Lewis Davidson + Kazuki Nishinaga "Salvage/Adrift"
Nobi
Until May 31
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Lewis Davidson, Kazuki Nishinaga
This is a two-person exhibition by Lewis Davidson, a London-based sculptor, and Kazuki Nishinaga, a sculptor based in Tokyo. Both are graduates of the Slade School of Fine Art, and the exhibition grew out of that connection. It also marks the first occasion for Lewis Davidson's work to be presented in Japan.
Davidson collects plastic waste drifting through social spaces and reassembles it into new objects through assemblage. For this exhibition, he will spend approximately one month in Japan, collecting materials on the streets of Tokyo. These will be brought together with materials gathered in London and transformed into works. Nishinaga attaches and accumulates plaster and clay onto architectural frames, seeking to fix the very process of structural collapse. Both artists are drawn to the chaos generated by vast systems of movement — like contemporary society itself — yet one attempts reconstruction from within it, while the other focuses on the process of disintegration. They also stand in contrast in terms of expression: one humorous, the other tragic in vision.
The exhibition title, Salvage / Adrift, evokes the sea and damaged fragments — yet with a clear distinction: one retrieves, the other is left to drift. The slash in the title emphasises this difference while loosely binding the two together.
On the occasion of this exhibition, a text by art critic Ryo Katsumata — "Cycles of Organisation: Lewis Davidson + Kazuki Nishinaga 'Salvage/Adrift'" — is published on the SPACE NOBI website ( https://space-nobi.net/exhibition/2026/salvage_adrift_en ). We warmly invite you to read it before visiting the exhibition.
Davidson collects plastic waste drifting through social spaces and reassembles it into new objects through assemblage. For this exhibition, he will spend approximately one month in Japan, collecting materials on the streets of Tokyo. These will be brought together with materials gathered in London and transformed into works. Nishinaga attaches and accumulates plaster and clay onto architectural frames, seeking to fix the very process of structural collapse. Both artists are drawn to the chaos generated by vast systems of movement — like contemporary society itself — yet one attempts reconstruction from within it, while the other focuses on the process of disintegration. They also stand in contrast in terms of expression: one humorous, the other tragic in vision.
The exhibition title, Salvage / Adrift, evokes the sea and damaged fragments — yet with a clear distinction: one retrieves, the other is left to drift. The slash in the title emphasises this difference while loosely binding the two together.
On the occasion of this exhibition, a text by art critic Ryo Katsumata — "Cycles of Organisation: Lewis Davidson + Kazuki Nishinaga 'Salvage/Adrift'" — is published on the SPACE NOBI website ( https://space-nobi.net/exhibition/2026/salvage_adrift_en ). We warmly invite you to read it before visiting the exhibition.
Schedule Now in session | Apr 18 (Sat) 2026-May 31 (Sun) 2026 10 days left Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | https://space-nobi.net/exhibition/2026/salvage_adrift | ||||
| Venue | Nobi https://space-nobi.net/ | ||||
| Location | 2-25-5 Ogawanishimachi, Kodaira-shi, Tokyo 187-0035 | ||||
| Access | 10 minute walk from the West exit of Ogawa Station on the Seibu Kokubunji line. | ||||
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