Immerse

Tanya Leighton, Los Angeles is pleased to present Immerse, a solo exhibition by London-based artist Matthew Krishanu. “In Matthew Krishanu’s ‘Immerse’, we are slowly submerged in dripping, fluid memories. Images, like they were forming in a dream, or becoming visible through a haze, lead us to fleeting protagonists, and sites in a state of temporariness. Immersion then means many things - the lushness of a grove of imposing trees or a mesh of branches, the depth of a cave, the eyes of a protagonist or even the states of learning, leisure and rest. It is also darkness and light, metaphor and corporeality. As his protagonists watch us, or look away in contemplation or resolve, Krishanu’s backgrounds continue to blur, leading us to an intimacy and focus on person, place, event and time.” —Mario D’Souza Matthew Krishanu (b. 1980, Bradford, England) lives and works in London. Krishanu’s major solo exhibition, ‘The Bough Breaks’, ran at Camden Art Centre in London from April to June 2024. Other solo exhibitions include Tanya Leighton, Berlin; LGDR, New York; Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai; Institute for International Visual Arts, London; Midlands Art Centre, Birmingham; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; and Huddersfield Gallery, Huddersfield. His work has also been included in group exhibitions such as ‘Life Is More Important Than Art’ at Whitechapel Gallery, London in 2023; ‘Prophecy’ at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry in 2022; ‘Mixing It Up: Painting Today’ at the Hayward Gallery, London in 2021; ‘Everyday Heroes’ at Southbank Centre, London in 2020; ‘Childhood Now’ at Compton Verney, Warwickshire, and ‘Made in Britain’, National Museum in Gdańsk, Poland both in 2019. Krishanu’s work is part of numerous permanent collections including the Government Art Collection of the United Kingdom; the Arts Council Collection, London; Central Saint Martins (UAL), London; Jiangsu Art Museum, Nanjing; Sixi Museum, Nanjing; Kiran Nadar Art Museum, New Delhi, and Komechak Art Gallery, Chicago.

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