"Can writing succeed as the subject of photography?" This is a question that troubles Paris-based artist Yuki Onodera.
Her two works from the series "The World is Not Small Enough" are included in "Photographs by Five," a group show at Zeit-Foto Salon in Kyobashi, Tokyo, looks at how photographic representation has continually reflected the changing realities of daily life. In Onodera's case, that has meant a move beyond images and toward another language after moving from Tokyo to Paris in the 1990s.
For Onodera, settlement is something fragmented by technology. Her growing suspicion of the limitations of what images alone imply has meant she now works three-dimensionally, making the point that we only truly understand the world by experiencing it. Her photograph of a room full of signage — of mountain topology, rivers, plant names and people — speaks of the subtle cultural differences that "outsiders" misread, overlook or simply ignore.