DIESEL ART GALLERY will host “NERVOUS,” the first solo exhibition in Japan by artist Anton Reva, from April 25 (Saturday) to July 12 (Sunday), 2026.

NERVOUS brings together two interlinked projects into a single perceptual field shaped by pressure - the pressure of contemporary space on perception, attention, clarity, and the ability to sustain deeper thought. The exhibition unfolds as an environment of perceptual disorientation, where depth, connection, and dialogue begin to erode.

At its core, NERVOUS explores emotional states that resist articulation - sensations that exist within consciousness and the body, yet evade language. These are moments of misalignment, when the self and the world fall out of sync. Across 99 works, the project traces fragments of lived experience, examining the fragility of perception and the ongoing search for inner voice, identity, and connection.

The works operate as an experimental field: real-life artifacts are transformed through distortion, memory, and inner impulse. Each experience carries the residue of previous ones, forming a continuous internal tension. Beneath every social interaction runs an invisible dialogue that shapes how we exist - a quiet but persistent pressure that defines the project’s system.

Recurring motifs include inexplicable emotion, internal turbulence, anxiety, and the distortion of memory under pressure. The works navigate perceptual dissonance, emotional proximity, and the unstable balance between self and world.

Within this framework, What Are They Going Through (WATGT) series emerges as a sub-context of NERVOUS. It reflects on the gradual loss of connection between an individual and their own voice - the slow silencing of desire, imagination, and intention. Under sustained pressure, the subject turns inward, eventually merging with their environment, assuming a state of objecthood.

A second dimension unfolds internally: within imagination, movement and possibility persist - a parallel life where the self remains active and free. In contrast, the physical world contracts. Dreams atrophy, perception dulls, and the capacity for meaningful connection diminishes.

Together, NERVOUS and WATGT construct a unified visual language - one that reflects a contemporary condition of overstimulation, paralysis, and disconnection. The works trace how individuals gradually lose their relationship to life itself, settling into a state of quiet, persistent stasis.

In addition to showcasing and selling artworks, T-shirts and related goods produced in collaboration with DIESEL will also be available at the exhibition.