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23 May 2026 - 25 Jul 2026 |
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Sat: 12:00PM - 6:00PM // Mon - Fri: appointment only - WhatsApp: (852) 6822 2962 |
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wamono art |
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Free admission |
This exhibition features works by two contemporary Japanese artists based in Paris, Aki Lumi and Yuki Onodera. Aki Lumi uses photography, drawings and sketches to explore questions such as what is artificial and what we see. Yuki Onodera constantly creates works that raise fundamental questions about what photography is and what images are. She uses photography to experimentally create a variety of works that explore themes that emerge from these questions. While these two artists share the same creative space and time, they each pursue their own individual creative endeavors. Their works each possess unique qualities, backed by their own philosophies, ideas, and methods of expression. This exhibition introduces their representative series such as Aki Lumi's "Traceryscape" and Yuki Onodera's "The World Is Not Small - 1826," in the same space, creating a mysterious sense of synesthesia.
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Yuki Onodera was born in Tokyo (1962). In 1993, she established a studio in Paris and began to work internationally. Onodera’s experimental work, which does not fit within schemas of “photography,” often poses two questions: what is photography, and what can be done through it? She uses any possible method to realize her works, whether this means taking photographs with a marble inside her camera, or creating a story out of a legend and traveling to the ends of the earth to shoot it. Onodera is known for making two-meter-high prints in the darkroom, or 8m size of collages, and for other original hands-on methods. Her works are presented in the “Elles@contrepompidou”(2009) a big exhibition at Centre Pompidou from the collection.
She won the prestigious awards Kimura Ihei Prize (2003, Japan) and Niépce Prize (2006, France).
Her work is held in collections around the world, including those of Centre Georges Pompidou, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The J.
Paul Getty Museum, Shanghai Art Museum and The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. Among other locations, her solo exhibitions have been
held at The National Museum of Art, Osaka (2005), Shanghai Art Museum (2006), Tokyo Photographic Art Museum (2010), The Museum of
Photography, Seoul (2010), Musée Nicéphore Niépce, France (2011), Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris
(2015) and Centre de la Photographie de Mougins (2022).
Aki Lumi was born in Tokyo; he currently lives in Paris. Through media such as photography, drawing and drafting, his work inquires into the meaning of man-made things and asks what sort of cognitive processes determine our world. Lumi’s series “The Garden” (which includes 100 works) represents his ideal garden. To make this work, he collected images of forests and jungles from all around the world, “cultivated” them on top of an imaginary building with real plants, and finally made analog photo-collages out of various iconic images and composite images made with a computer. While his work “trace” may appear at first glance to be a map, it is actually a drawing with numerous lines, made only with a compass and a ruler; it can be viewed from any direction. Lumi is also known for his work “traceryscape”, in which he attached insects to photographic negatives of landscape scenes, then drew with a compass and a ruler on the resulting print. This work brings out a new type of two-dimensional landscape. In 1993, Lumi established a studio in Paris; since then, his work has been exhibited in France, Japan, China and other countries around the world.
