Keita Morimoto paints the night time like a recent imaginative and prescient of Hopper’s Nighthawks. There may be human components and a slight trace of motion within the late night time scenes in a Morimoto universe, and the identical quiet depth of being a voyeur in these weak hours. There may be simply one thing on the sting of a ghostly occurring, a surreal and cinematic distance between you and the scenes earlier than you that’s unsettling and but protected. Our relationship between midnight and daybreak is commonly related to extra, an evening out that lingers into morning, a blurred sense of actuality that comes from being at a late-night membership, closing down a bar, hanging out with buddies because the darkish skies to show to the pink glow of morning. However what we regularly do not contemplate is the need that the world supplies as a 24-hour place, one thing the city facilities supply however not many people partake in.
Morimoto’s To Nowhere and Again at Almine Rech Tribeca is a play between what a metropolis gives and what we’d like from a metropolis that by no means sleeps. They’re work that remind us of each the magic of the night time and the otherworldly feeling the night time offers us after we see that it’s a transferring, appearing drive of life. —Evan Pricco
