To mark the opening of the exhibition, ひろしま/hiroshima, at the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, we are delighted to host an artist talk by Ishiuchi Miyako, one of Japan’s most prominent post-war photographers. Ishiuchi will be in conversation with Jonathan Watkins, discussing her artistic practice and the photography she has produced over the years, with a particular focus on the series ‘ひろしま/hiroshima’, which breathes new life into personal belongings, reviving the individual memories of those who once lived in Hiroshima.

About The contributors

Ishiuchi Miyako

Ishiuchi Miyako was born in Gunma Prefecture and grew up in the city of Yokosuka in Kanagawa Prefecture. In 1979, she won the 4th Kimura Ihei Award for her work Apartment. In 2005, she represented Japan at the Venice Biennale with her series Mother, for which she photographed items inherited from her late mother. In 2007, she began her ongoing and internationally-renowned series ひろしま/hiroshima, for which she photographs belongings of atomic bomb victims. She received the Japanese Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon in 2013, the Hasselblad Award in 2014, the Asahi Prize in 2022, and the Women in Motion Award in 2024. Her major exhibitions in recent years have included the solo exhibitions Postwar Shadows at the J. Paul Getty Museum (2015) and Grain and Image at the Yokohama Museum of Art (2017), as well as Step Through Time at the Okawa Museum of Art (August 2024).

Jonathan Watkins (moderator)

Jonathan Watkins is an independent curator and writer and was previously Director of the Ikon Gallery (1999-2022). Previously he worked for a number of years in London, as Curator of the Serpentine Gallery (1995-1997) and Director of Chisenhale Gallery (1990-1995). He has curated a number of large international exhibitions including the Biennale of Sydney (1998), Facts of Life: Contemporary Japanese Art (Hayward Gallery, London 2001), Quotidiana (Castello di Rivoli, Turin 1999), Tate Triennial (2003), Shanghai Biennale (2006), Sharjah Biennial (2007), Negotiations (Today Art Museum, Beijing 2010) and the Guangzhou Triennial (2012). He was on the curatorial team for Europarte (Venice Biennale, 1997), Milano Europa 2000 (Palazzo di Triennale, Milan, 2000) and Riwaq (Palestinian Biennial, 2007). He curated the Iraqi Pavilion for the Venice Biennale in 2013 and Floating World, Bahrain in 2017. In 2019 Watkins was the curator of  Small Between the Stars, Large Against the Sky at the 9th Manif d’art, Quebec City Biennial.

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