ZEN FOTO GALLERY

Zen Foto Gallery is pleased to present ”The Body Lurking Within Color,” a solo exhibition by photographer Tokyo Rumando, from Friday, October 2 through Saturday, October 31, and again from Tuesday, November 24 through Saturday, December 19, 2026.
Marking Tokyo Rumando’s first solo exhibition at Zen Foto Gallery in five years, the exhibition celebrates the publication of her 2024 photobook ‘Paris Iridescent’, published by Zen Foto Gallery. The exhibition will feature nine carefully selected works presented as large-format prints on Japanese washi paper.
On Saturday, October 3, Zen Foto Gallery director Mark Pearson will be in conversation with Tokyo Rumando for an artist talk event. We warmly invite you to join us.

This work is a refined photographic interpretation of my own performance, originally presented in November 2018 at Galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière as a satellite event of ‘disco red dress’, which was exhibited by Taka Ishii Gallery at Paris Photo.
The performance was later developed into the video work ‘The Story of S’, presented as a solo exhibition at Museum Folkwang, Germany in 2020, and as ‘S TRIP’ at Zen Foto Gallery in 2021. In 2024, the work was also published by the same gallery under the title ‘Paris Iridescent’.

For my 2026 solo exhibition, I have chosen the title ‘The Body Lurking Within Color’.
The exhibition explores color as a spatial environment and examines how I confront and resonate with the boundary between fields of color and my own body. By shifting the focus away from the body as an object, I seek to reveal what can emerge through this displacement and to produce a visual transformation. The compositions of color assert a powerful and definite presence.
I consider lurking and camouflage not simply as acts of hiding, but as positive actions—strategies for navigating and surviving within a contemporary society characterized by constant and rapid change.
In the space between these seemingly contradictory states of “definite presence” and “lurking,” time and memory, emotions and thoughts, and the choices I have made continue to circulate.
When lines and spaces are expressed through layers of accumulated hues, I believe it becomes possible to construct a temporary heterotopia—one in which I can free myself from fixed images of the body and from the constraints of how the self is expected to be. It is a space in which a new relationship with color can begin.

— Tokyo Rumando

Zen Foto Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition ”Dream Within a Dream,” by photographer Masakazu Murakami, from Saturday, October 24 to Saturday, December 19, 2026.

The first exhibition at our new Paris location, this show features eight works selected from his collection of negatives spanning 25 years since around 2000, marking Murakami’s Paris debut. The show follows the publication of his latest photobook by Zen Foto Gallery in October 2025.

Peculiar signboards, drifting gazes, the sky above, streams of sunlight and the silhouettes it reveals...
As if one were sinking beneath water, with blurred vision and muffled hearing, the experience while looking at these photos evokes the curious sensation of peering into someone else's daydream.

During the exhibition, on Thursday, November 12, a talk event with photography critic Kenji Takazawa will be held. Interpretation from Japanese into French will be available during this talk.

“I can hardly remember when and where the photographs were taken. Together with the negative films that I never reviewed, they remained submerged in my memory. Perhaps these photographs, taken half-unconsciously without any intention, offer a glimpse of something similar to the boundary between dream and reality.”

― from Masakazu Murakami’s afterword