In the first moments I saw the works of Japanese artist Yu Nishimura, I felt this enormous sensation, a wave of grief almost, of what happens after the world is flipped upside down and we are left to repair. You wouldn't, I maybe think, go to a Last of Us sort of scenario when you see this work, but there is a burden of survival in these works, a subtle passage of time in a once familiar place. Nishimura says of the works, "This exhibition (at David Zwirner) explores the creation of another place—expressed as pictorial existence—derived from landscapes with which I have connected. These places, built of memory, are also distillations of my ever-flowing self through time." But the blurred nature of the works, the home being a place that feels distorted by something peculiar and magical is at the center of Clearing Unfolds, in perhaps one of my favorite shows of 2025 so far. —Evan Pricco