Tokyo Rumando

Tokyo Rumando was born in 1980 in 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 spent many years in front of the camera as a model, model, or muse, the act of picking up the camera is more than restorative. She considers her photographic practice as a “contribution to rebuilding a new self.”

She presents her series Orpheus 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. Baring herself 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 settings, reminiscent of the photographs of Cindy Sherman. We find ourselves somewhere between fiction and documentary, and by putting her images together, we could almost say we are watching a docu-fiction.

His series Orpheus is 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 Parisian gallery Taka Ishii in 2016. She also released four photographic books: Rest 3000 - Stay 5000 (2012), Orpheus (2014), Self Polaroids (2017) and S in 2018.