Orphée

Tokyo Rumando

Performing for the Camera: 5 key artists
Curator Simon Baker, selects his top five artists from the forthcoming Performing for the Camera at the Tate Modern.
http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/articles/performing-for-the-camera-5-key-artists

Rumando is in a room, standing staring into a mirror. But this mirror is enchanted. It not only reflects reality, but also retrieves lost memories, indeed memories of Rumando herself. It opens up a path into a strange world. Anxiety and fear, dark desire and pleasure, decadence and madness, and then death and the void are revealed and magnified by this mirror. Rumando lies under a curse of memory and fate, as tendrils of darkness suffocate her body and soul. She disintegrates under the pull of a magnetic field emanating from the alien world in the enchanted mirror.

Text by Toshiki Soma, except from the book's article.

Book Size
225 x 182 mm
Pages
84 page
Binding
Softcover
Publication Date
2014
Limited Edition
500

Artist Profile

Tokyo Rumando

Tokyo Rumando was born in 1980 in Tokyo. She graduated from Bunka Fashion College and is currently studying art research and oil painting at Musashino Art University. A self-taught photographer, she began taking photographs in 2005 and primarily focuses on self-portraits. Most of her staged photographs feature herself and explore questions of identity. Her practice also encompasses performance and various media, through which she examines her own identity and artistic expression.

Active in Japan and internationally, her series Orphée was included in the group exhibition Performing for the Camera at Tate Modern (London) in 2016. Her solo exhibition The Story of S was held at Museum Folkwang (Essen, Germany) in 2020, and her series Rest 3000~ Stay 5000~ was included in the group exhibition Tokyo: Art & Photography at the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford) in 2021.

Her solo exhibitions include I'm only happy when I'm naked (Ibasho Gallery, Antwerp, 2018; Taka Ishii Gallery Photography Paris, 2016); S (Zen Foto Gallery, 2018); Orphée (Tokyo Light Room, Place M, and Zen Foto Gallery, Tokyo, 2014); REST 3000~ STAY 5000~ (Zen Foto Gallery, 2012); and Hotel Life (Place M, Tokyo, 2012).

Her photobooks include Paris Iridescent (2024), S (2018), selfpolaroids (2017), Orphée (2014), and Rest 3000~ Stay 5000~ (2012), all published by Zen Foto Gallery.

Gallery Exhibitions

Rumando "Orphée"

Dates: September 3 (Wed) — September 20 (Sat), 2014

Location: Tokyo