多和田有希
YUKI
TAWADA
TawadaYuki
Mediums of photographs, where images attach themselves on, have changed over a short period of time. This indicates that photography has always carried with itself a potential of diverse materiality as well as sculptural properties since its origin. Photographic images have always been seeking a body to dwell in.
Tawada’s works contain such mystical spirituality from the early period of photography. Her approach to photography can be seen as an endeavor to redeem the magical materiality the photograph carries. Here, one must focus on Tawada’s manual attempt to awaken the reality from the photograph and to discover the immanent aura that resonates within the photograph.
(Toshiharu Ito , Art historian / Professor, Department of Intermedia Art, Tokyo University of the Arts)
< Either Photograph, Painting or Sculpture, but Neither all >
"My creation is on the borderline of photograph, painting and sculpture.
I intend to take people into sensory experiences by my making emotional traces.
In this process, I refer to the arts of sympathetic magic and methods of therapeutic techniques. What I pursue is not only their magical or therapeutic effects, but also effective way to make photographs to speak again, after being consumed in modern life.
Although it became difficult for people to look carefully into photographs in this age of information overload, people still seem to seek for a smell of physical traces over the smooth surface of digital images. The reason why I deal with photographs is because it intimately connects with people’s emotion and unconsciousness while regarded as objective media in public."
1978 Born in Hamamatsu, Japan
2019 Kyoto University of the Arts, Associate Professor of Photography and Video course
Lives and works in Kyoto, Japan
Education
2003 Tohoku University, Biochemistry (BS*Bachelor of Science), JP
University of California, Santa Barbara (Exchange Program) (2001-2002), US
2005 University of the Arts, London, Camberwell College of Arts, Photography (BA), UK
2008 Tokyo University of the Arts (MA), JP
2011 Tokyo University of the Arts (PhD), JP
Solo Exhibitions
2023 「THE SHIP WHO SANG」KURENBOH, Tokyo
2018 「Exorcism / Family Tree / Neuron Forest」G/P gallery, Tokyo, JP
2012 「Burnt Photographs」TARO NASU, Tokyo, JP
2009 「Missing Folklore」TARO NASU, Tokyo, JP
2007 「WHITE OUT」INAX Gallery, Tokyo, JP
2004 「The Secret Language」The Michael Faraday Museum, The Royal Institution, London, UK
Group Exhibitions
2024
「Sleep, My Good Child / Where Good Child Sleeps」,Kanagawa Kenmin Hall Gallery, Yokohama.
「Temporary Contemporary Photography」, YOD gallery, Osaka, JP
「I’M SO HAPPY YOU ARE HERE JAPANESE WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS FROM THE 1950S TO NOW」, Les Rencontres d'Arles, Palais de l’Archevêché, Arles, FR
「When I Kiss You, I Can Taste Your Soul」、KOTARO NUKAGA, Tokyo
2023 From Silence Woven by the Void’s Code, Realms Take Shape, KURENBOH, Tokyo
「old/new」PHILIPPS TOKYO, Tokyo
2022 「Seeing as though touching Contemporary Japanese Photography vol.19」Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, JP
「Talking while Yielding / Thinking with Echoes」, MtK Contemporary Art, Kyoto
「Photographic Object」KURENBOH, Tokyo
「MUTANT(S) on POST/PHOTOGRAPHY2 BLeeDinG eDgE on PoST/pHotOgRapHy」Galerie Aube, Kyoto, JP (Curated by Yuki Tawada＋Shigeo Goto）
2021 「Digital Organic」HOTEL ANTEROOM KYOTO, Kyoto, JP
「KUA ceramic labo」Galerie Aube, Kyoto, JP
「NEO TOKYO ZINE＋POST PHOTO SHOW（MUTANT(S) on POST/PHOTOGRAPHY）」,Masayoshi Suzuki Gallery, Okazaki, JP
「constellation #2」、rin art association, Takasaki, JP
「MUTANT(S) on POST/PHOTOGRAPHY KUA P&V」Galerie Aube, Kyoto, JP (Curated by Yuki Tawada＋Shigeo Goto）
2020 「LANDING AND CULTIVATION」,HOTEL ANTEROOM KYOTO, Kyoto, JP
「INTER MEDIA ART 2020 APPARATION」, The Chinretsukan Gallery, Tokyo University of
the Arts, Tokyo, JP
「constellation #1, rin art association, Takasaki, JP
「The Yebisu International Festival for Art &Alternative Visions 2020」
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, JP
2019 「Family Tree」Galerie Omotesando, Musee F, Tokyo, JP
「HAMAMATSU SESSIONS」Hirano Art Gallery , Shizuoka, JP
「Count the Waves - Visualizing Invisibility」Chinretsukan gallery, The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts , Tokyo, JP
2018 「 Dual / I am in You」, Maebashi Works, Maebashi, Gunma, JP
「NEW PLANET PHOTO CITY : William Klein and Photographers Living in the 22nd Century」, 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT, Tokyo, JP
「Veil and Void」, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Kanagawa , JP
2017 「Light/Electricity/God : Thunderbolts and Art」, Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi, Gunma, JP
「EPHEMERAL PHOTOGRAPHY」, Galerie Omotesando, Tokyo, JP
「EXPLORATIONS-New Positions in Photography and Photorealism」, MICHEKO GALERIE, Munich,DE
2016 「Nothing is hidden」Okurayama Memorial Hall Gallery, Yokohama, JP
2015 「5×3 2015」Kunstraum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, DE
2014 「Boundaries of Photograph」Yokohama Civic Art Gallery Azamino, Yokohama, JP
2013 「Contemplation : Emerging Female Photographers from Japan」(traveling exhibition) Texas Woman's University, Texas, US
2012 「Contemplation : Emerging Female Photographers from Japan」Pictura Gallery, Bloomington, US
2011 「Doctoral Program Final Exhibition」The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the arts, Tokyo, JP
2010 「VOCA 2010 - THE VISION OF CONTEMPORARY ART」The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, JP
2009 「only one」MOT/ARTS, Taipei, TW
2008 「450」TARO NASU OSAKA, Osaka, JP
「Inter Media Art Course prize winner's show」Tokyo University of the Arts Ueno campus, Tokyo, JP
「Graduation Exhibition (M.F.A) Inter Media Art Course, Tokyo University of the Arts」,ZAIM, Yokohama, JP
2005 「Second Sight : Final Degree Show」Camberwell College of Arts, London, UK
2002 「Asian American Film Festival」Isla Vista Theatre, University of California, Santa Barbara,US
Art Fairs / Book Fairs
2019 「Tokyo Art Book Fair」Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, JP
2018 「Unseen」Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam, NL
「Photo Fairs Shanghai」Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai, CN
2017 「Tokyo Art Book Fair」Warehouse TERRADA, Tokyo, JP
2012 「Tokyo Photo」Tokyo Midtown Hall, Tokyo, JP
2009 「VOLTA5」Markthalle, Basel, CH
2008 「SCOPE Basel」Kaserne Basel, Basel, CH
「Art Fair Tokyo」Tokyo international Forum, Tokyo, JP
2007 「Paris Photo 2007」Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, FR（also '08,'09）
awards and nominations
2008 Salon de Plantan Award, Graduation Exhibition (M.F.A) Inter Media Art Course, Tokyo University of the Arts, JP
BMW- Paris Photo Prize for contemporary photography, short-listed, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, FR
Collection
Freer and Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art
JURY
2024 TOKYO FRONTLINE PHOTO AWARD 2024
2023 TOKYO FRONTLINE PHOTO AWARD 2023
2022 TOKYO FRONTLINE PHOTO AWARD 2022
2021 TOKYO FRONTLINE PHOTO AWARD 2021
2020 TOKYO FRONTLINE PHOTO AWARD 2020
PUBLICAtions
2021 「PHOTOGRAPHED BY HORII HIROTSUGU, OKAWARA HIKARI AND TAWADA YUKI (KUA P &V ZINE vol.0」KUA P＆V
「MUTANT(S) on POST/PHOTOGRAPHY」G/P＋abp
「DOIROBUTA #3 GIRLS UNPLAGGED」Maison MIHARA YASUHIRO
2020 「YUKI TAWADA : BROKEN MIRRORS thegirlwhowaspluggedin」G/P＋abp
2019 「The Evolution of Photography as Contemporary Art」, Shigeo Goto, Chihiro Minato and Masafumi Fukagawa (eds.), Film Art Inc. Contributed articles
「sazanami collective 2019.03.13 - 06.19 Ryo Fujimoto→Yuki Tawada→Hiroshi Takizawa」Self-published
2018 「 Yuki Tawada 2007-2017」Self-published
「Veil and Void : Ryo Fujimoto / Yuki Tawada」Self-published
2017 「Dual / I am in You : Hiroshi Takizawa / Yuki Tawada」Self-published
THESIS
2011 How Altered states of Consciousness Can Be Expressed by the Lens-Media through the research of Magic Realism
2008 The Cure in the Memory by Using Photography