Tomoko Yoneda, Kimusa 02, 2009. C-type print. Courtesy the artist and ShugoArts.
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography is currently dedicating a perspicacious mid-career retrospective survey (through 23 September 2013) to London-based / Japanese-born Tomoko Yoneda. “We shall meet where there is no darkness” encloses over a decade of pictures within seven individual series as well as one video installation, all painstaking researching and documenting particular places and artifacts that bring back distant memories and preserve deep historical insight of Japan’s relations with its surrounding nations in the past century. Yoneda jointly organized the solo show “Rooms†at ShugoArts – the gallery in Kiyosumi-Shirakawa art complex which represents her – to gather more sets of congruent photographic works such as the “Topographical Analogies†series. (through 7 September 2013)
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