TOKYO RUMANDO

Tokyo Rumando was born in 1980 in the city of Tokyo. While working as a model for films and magazines, she took her first photographs in 2005 - self-portraits - as a way to reclaim her body and her image. Having been in front of the camera for many years as a model, model or muse, the act of taking hold of the camera is more than restorative. She considers her photographic practice as a “contribution to rebuilding a new self”.

She presented her series Orphée as part of a group exhibition " Performing for the Camera " at the Tate Modern in 2016. In her series, Rumando confronts the darkness of memory. Laying herself bare in front of her lens, she confronts her image and her memories, in the form of a ritual. Both in the series and in her Polaroids, Rumando highlights personal fantasies, in various stagings, which are reminiscent of the photographs of Cindy Sherman. We find ourselves between fiction and documentary, and by putting her images end to end, we could almost say that we are watching a docu-fiction.

Her Orpheus series was also presented at the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts in 2016, more recently at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford in 2021, as well as in her solo exhibition in 2014 in Tokyo. Her work has also been exhibited at the Folkwang Museum in Germany in 2020, at the Zen Foto Gallery in Tokyo several times (2014, 2018, 2021), at the Ibasho Gallery in Belgium in 2018, and at the Taka Ishii Gallery in Paris in 2016. She has also released four photography books: Rest 3000 - Stay 5000 (2012), Orphée (2014), Self Polaroids (2017), and S in 2018.

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Tokyo Rumando was born in Tokyo in 1980. While working as a model for films and magazines, she took her first photos in 2005 - self-portraits - as a way of reappropriating her body and her image. Having spent many years in front of the camera as a model or muse, the act of picking up the camera is more than healing. She sees her photographic practice as a “contribution to reconstructing a new self”.

She presented her Orpheus series as part of a group exhibition Performing for the Camera at Tate Modern in 2016. In her series, Rumando confronts the darkness of our memory. Exposing herself to the lens, she confronts her image and her memories, in the form of a ritual. Both in the series and in her Polaroids, Rumando shows personal fantasies through staged productions in a variety of ways, reminiscent of Cindy Sherman's photographs. We find ourselves somewhere between fiction and documentary, and when we put her images together, we could almost say we were watching a docu-drama.

Her Orpheus series was also shown at the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts in 2016, and more recently at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford in 2021, as well as in her solo exhibition in Tokyo in 2014. Her work has also been exhibited at the Folkwang Museum in Germany in 2020, at the Zen Foto Gallery in Tokyo on several occasions (2014, 2018, 2021), at the Ibasho gallery in Belgium in 2018 and at the Taka Ishii gallery in Paris in 2016. She has also released four photographic books: Rest 3000 - Stay 5000 (2012), Orphée (2014), Self Polaroids (2017) and S in 2018.