One of Japan's leading photographers, Yoneda, working from her base in Europe, has had her work selected for inclusion in the Venice Biennale and other art exhibitions throughout the world.
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.

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Path, 2003
C-Type Print, 76x96cm
© Tomoko Yoneda

Courtesy of Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography