Kiang Malingue is pleased to present at its Tin Wan studio space Hiroka Yamashita’s first exhibition with the gallery Field, Force, Surface, showcasing ten recent paintings by the artist.

Hiroka Yamashita (born 1991 in Hyogo, Japan) lives and works in Okayama after graduating from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University in 2019. Reflecting upon the Satoyama lifestyle she confidently leads  – turning away from the metropolis to live with nature – and the invisible, spiritual dimension of the environment, Yamashita employs as her guiding principles key ideas from the realm of physics and creates paintings that either vibrate as recollections or undulate as consolidated visions.

Recent works included in the exhibition are Field (Blue and Green) and Field (Surface II), two starkly abstract landscapes, in which human figures are absent. Putting pictorial depth into play while emphasising the spatial and the atmospheric, the two artworks reconsider the legacy of Hasegawa Tōhaku’s (1539–1610), a painter of the Azuchi–Momoyama period, and Yamashita’s training in traditional Japanese art, speaking of a verisimilitude that almost seems incredible as the artist highlights illuminated undercurrents and a hazy pink scene, invaded gently by sap green zigzags.

Gallery address: 12/F, Blue Box Factory Building, 25 Hing Wo Street, Aberdeen