Tanya Leighton, Los Angeles is pleased to premier the first West Coast 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