Hikari Nishida



*a collection of works to touch and see.
2023

Installation
In situ work
Mural drawing, vinyl sticker, 4000x2670 mm
framed prints

Series on Sun -June
Artist’s publication

Clip, hobby, Intimacy
Artist’s publication

In collaboration with Deskjet Print
Artist’s publication
Associate Gallery (Reykjavík, Iceland), solo exhibition

*a collection of works to touch and see.
is a gathering of past personal works from France and Finland, made with many collaborators and contributors such as Léa Girardot, Photobooks From Finland, James Prevett, the artist’s computer, Inkjet Deskjet Printer…

It is a collection of works showed in different contexts: school, galleries, a vending machine, a window-exhibition.

What gathers all these works is the artist’s interest for publication as a form of artistic practice, its potential to connect with others, and the relationship between the banal element of a home printer, printing, and herself.


Series on Sun - June
artist’s publication

20 pages
350x500mm + A4 print
digital and inkjet printing
edition of 100
2022.

The publication was commissioned by Photobooks from Finland (PBFF), presented for "URB" Festival, Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum, Helsinki, 7-8.6.22.

"You are holding in your palms and between your fingers a narrative of the days passing by below the hurried sun of Helsinki. Carefully made to read and age, please, keep it dry and under direct sunlight."

The series on sun – June, is a publication mimicking formally a calendar, consisting of visuals playing between abstraction and figuration in the theme of temporality and light (an hommage to the summer month in Finland and midsummer times), a poem written by Hikari Nishida and handwritten in mirror by type designer Léa Girardot, and an A4 print. (In order to read the poem, the viewer needs to hold the page through the sunlight.)

The publication was part of The Newspaper Vending Machine project.
The Newspaper Vending Machine consists of series of commissioned artist publications using the newspaper format and sold in a vending machine around various locations in the city.


above and underneath (I)
artitst’s publication

16 pages
A5
Inkjet print (home printer)
2025



The publication was launched at the Tokio Art Book Fair 2025.

“Above & underneath (I)” is the beginning of a series of publication focusing on drawing experiments with variety of techniques: pencil drawings mixed with collages, various papers, digital drawings, multi-layer prints (images printed many times on the same paper); all scanned images. They are an attempt to represent texture in drawings even textile resemblances in drawings. In other word it is an attempt to find tactility in images.


Clip, hobby, intimacy
Artist’s publication

Two A4 prints
Inkjet Print (home printer)
Post-it
Munken Print
2022

This publication was created and exhibited by the invitation of James Prevett’s show Twenty-three sculptures and a painting
Sculptor Gallery, 2-25.09.22.

In response to James Prevett’s sculptural work, this publication consists of a collection of poems, made by mixing and matching differents words picked up from already exisiting notes of the artist’s appointment planner.

By this process, new poetic notes from every day memos of future and past encounters in the city appeared. Each publication has a variation from the printing process, based on the ink level of the printer.

The text was also read live furing ICRN radio live, an extension of the exhibition by sounds, on 13.09.22, 19-21:00 in https://idaidaida.net, https://palanga.live, and https://tirkultura.net.



Dream (in a dream)
Performance and artist’s publication

Inkjet prtiner Deskjet print
Munken Print,
Post-its,
Clippers,
Digital Pdf & laptop
2021
Vapaantaiteentila, group exhibition
The publication was printed during the show only.

Dream (in a dream) is a simple publication consisting of two words : “bonjour” (good morning), “bonsoir” (good evening). The printer is printing each pages in front of the viewer, mimicking the sky and the sun changing and moving throughout an imaginary day.



Left rain, right sand, in the middle possibilities
Installation
Muken Pure, dimension variable, digital soundscape.

Artist book
11‭ ‬x 19,5cm
Munken Print White 90g/m2
64‭ ‬pages
25‭ ‬numbered copies
The exhibition was presented at Kosminen gallery, Helsinki, 3.–6.10.2019.

This sculptural and sound work was created in collaboration with artist Albane Durand -Viel. The printed landscape evolve from a figurative to an abstract world, going into a pattern perception of reality, opening or getting from a very defined word to a pixelised one where possibilities are bigger. It is a poetical prepresentation of the abstraction within the micro.


The Temporary Bookshelf
Artist initiative

2021-

Website dedicated to this project.
The Temporary Bookshelf is an artist run initiative founded by Hikari Nishida, based in Finland & focusing on artist publishing practices. The project started in 2021 as a non-profit art bookshop and as an event organiser, it now operates mainly as co-director of Helsinki art book fair “Under the Leaf“ and since 2025 runs a small publishing house called “ttbbooks”.
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