Curated by Melanie Pocock, Ikon Artistic Director (Exhibitions), this show presents a selection of photography by London-based Japanese artist Tomoko Yoneda, produced over the past thirty years. It is shown at the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation.
Among the works are photographs from her seminal series Scene (2006, 2015) that revisit sites of historic conflict and unspoken trauma, and DMZ (2015, 2023), in which the artist captures the quiet beauty of native flora in Korea’s demilitarised zone. A display in the ground floor library features silver gelatin prints from her series Between Visible and Invisible (1998, 1999, 2003, 2008, 2018, 2025), focusing on texts of personal significance to major historical and intellectual figures of the 20th century.
This exhibition is organised by the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation and supported by ShugoArts.
About the artist
Tomoko Yoneda was born in Hyogo, Japan, in 1965, and lives in London. Exhibitions include 1995 ⇄ 2025 Our Lives Since January 17, 1995, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Hyogo (2025); Crystals, ShugoArts, Tokyo (2024); Forms of the Shadow, Vienna Secession, Vienna (2024); Constellations: Photographs in Dialogue, SFMOMA, San Francisco (2021-22); 12th Shanghai Biennale (2018); Tell Me a Story: Locality and Narrative, Rockbund Museum, Shanghai (2016); Discordant Harmony, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei (2016) and Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan (2015); Beyond Memory, Grimaldi Gavin, London (2015); SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul (2014); 10th Gwangju Biennale (2014); We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness, Himeji City Museum of Art, Hyogo, Japan (2014) and Tokyo Photographic Art Museum (2013); Aichi Triennale (2013); The First Kyiv International Biennale of Contemporary Art: Arsenale 2012, Ukraine (2012); Japanese House, ShugoArts, Tokyo (2011); and An end is a beginning, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (2008); Think with the Senses – Feel with the Mind, 52nd Venice Biennale, Venice (2007). In 2021, a retrospective exhibition of her work was held at Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid, and accompanied by a fully illustrated monograph.
27 March – 16 June 2025
Open Monday – Friday, 9.30am–5pm (except public holidays)
Free entry
Please note this exhibition is held at the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London, NW1 4QP
Private View: Wednesday 26 March, 6-8pm. Booking essential
Tomoko Yoneda in conversation with Melanie Pocock: Wednesday 9 April, 12-1.15pm. Booking essential
Daiwa Foundation Japan House has step-free access to the ground floor. There is a lift giving access to all floors, however the lift is narrow, measuring 73cm (W) x 120cm (D). A manual wheelchair and accessible bathroom are available.
Please contact office@dajf.org.uk if you require any more information regarding accessibility.
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