Image: Tomoko Yoneda, 'Takarazuka Theater, Tokyo (Clausen & Vutokevich)', 2008, Gelatin Silver Print, Image: 9.5 cm × 9.5 cm, Print: 35.6 cm × 27.9 cm, © Tomoko Yoneda. Courtesy of the artist and ShugoArts.
Artist talkWednesday 30 April 2025
12:00pm – 1:15pm (UK) / 8:00pm – 9:15pm (Japan)
Tomoko Yoneda in conversation with Melanie Pocock
13/14 Cornwall Terrace, Outer Circle (entrance facing Regent's Park), London NW1 4QP
Organised by the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation
Booking closedIn this webinar, Tomoko Yoneda was in conversation with Melanie Pocock, curator of her exhibition Faultlines, discussing her artistic practice and the photography she has produced over the past thirty years, including the seminal series Scene, that revisits sites of historic conflict and unspoken trauma, and DMZ, in which the artist captures the quiet beauty of native flora in Korea’s demilitarised zone, as well as her series Between Visible and Invisible.
WRITTEN SUMMARY – TOMOKO YONEDA AND MELANIE POCOCK
The video recording of this webinar can be viewed here:
About the contributors
Tomoko Yoneda
Born in Akashi, Japan, 1965, Tomoko Yoneda earned a BAF in Photography at The University of Illinois-Chicago in 1989 before completing an MA in Photography at the Royal College of Art in 1991. Select exhibitions include 1995 ⇄ 2025 Our Lives Since January 17, 1995, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art (2025); Crystals, ShugoArts, Tokyo (2024); Forms of the Shadow, Vienna Secession (2024); Constellations: Photographs in Dialogue, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (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 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); An end is a beginning, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (2008) and Think with the Senses – Feel with the Mind, 52nd Venice Biennale (2007). In 2021, a retrospective exhibition of her work was held at Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid, and accompanied by a fully illustrated monograph.
Melanie Pocock (Moderator)
Melanie Pocock, as Artistic Director (Exhibitions), leads Ikon Gallery’s exhibition programme, publications, and, with the wider team, off-site projects. She was previously Assistant Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, where she curated more than 60 exhibitions with South East Asian and international artists. Recent exhibitions include Horror in the Modernist Block (2022), a group exhibition exploring the relationship between architectural modernism and horror through contemporary art, and Foreign Exchange (2022), a reimagining of Birmingham’s statue of Queen Victoria by Hew Locke RA for the Birmingham 2022 Festival. As an editor and writer, Pocock contributes to exhibition catalogues and monographs, and has written essays, articles and reviews for Art Asia Pacific, Art Monthly, frieze, Kaleidoscope, LEAP, Ocula, Phaidon, The Financial Times, Journal of Curatorial Studies, Di’van | A Journal of Accounts and Third Text. A member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), she holds an MA with Distinction in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art, London.