Tomoko Yoneda “We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness” at Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography

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Tomoko Yoneda, Hiroshima Peace Day, from “Cumulus” series, 2011. C-type print. Courtesy the artist © Tomoko Yoneda

Tomoko Yoneda
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness

20 July – 23 September 2013
at Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography

Yoneda Tomoko not only addresses subjects visible in reality but also projects the memories and history associated with places and things onto her work. As a result, through the act of looking at photographs, the viewer is challenged to question anew the essence of what is we actually are able to see.

To Yoneda, who, in two decades of living overseas, has been keenly aware of her Japanese identity, the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake has had a profound impact. Much of her early work focused on Europe, but she has recently increasingly addressed Taiwan, Korea, and other parts of Asia, particularly places involved in the course of Japan’s modernization. This exhibition focuses on Yoneda’s most renowned photographs, plus new images created especially for the exhibition, to introduce the world of Yoneda Tomoko as it unfolds, in the present progressive tense. [read the full text here]

Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
Yebisu Garden Place,
1-13-3 Mita Meguro-ku
Tokyo, 153-0062, Japan
syabi.com

Opening hours
Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday & Sunday: 10h00 – 18h00
Thursday, Friday: 10h00 – 20h00
(until 21:00 on Thursdays & Fridays from 18 July to 27 September)
Closed on Monday (When Monday is a public holiday or a substitute holiday, it is the next day)

Admissions:
Adults ¥700/College Students ¥600/High School & Junior High School Students, Over 65 ¥500

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Tomoko Yoneda, Looking at “The Three Brothers” rocks by a prisoner-tunnel: Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinsky, from “The Island of Sakhalin” series, 2011. C-type print. Courtesy the artist © Tomoko Yoneda

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Tomoko Yoneda, Former house of General Wang Shu-Ming, the Chief of Staff under Chiang kai-Shek, Cidong Street, I, from “Japanese House” series, 2010. C-type print. Courtesy the artist and ShugoArts, Tokyo. © Tomoko Yoneda

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Tomoko Yoneda, Ganshi’s Glasses – Viewing a note on his Day of Silence shortly before his death, from “Between Visible and Invisible” series, 2003. C-type print. Courtesy the artist and ShugoArts, Tokyo. © Tomoko Yoneda

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