Exhibition: Synesthesia – Aki Lumi x Yuki Onodera

wamono art is delighted to announce an upcoming exhibition presenting the works of two contemporary Japanese artists based in Paris, Aki Lumi and Yuki Onodera. Aki Lumi’s practice spans photography, drawings, and sketches, through which he explores questions of perception, visibility, and the boundaries between the artificial and the real. His works invite viewers to reconsider what is seen and how visual realities are constructed. Yuki Onodera’s longstanding practice is grounded in a rigorous examination of photography itself. Constantly questioning what photography is and what images can be, she uses the medium experimentally to produce a wide range of works that emerge from these fundamental inquiries. While Lumi and Onodera share the same creative time and space, each artist pursues an independent path shaped by their own philosophy, ideas, and methods of expression. For this exhibition, Aki Lumi presents new series “Shan Shui – HK”, which reimagines Hong Kong’s urban architecture as monumental mountain forms. Drawing on the foundational Chinese concept of Shan Shui—literally “mountain and water”—the series transforms the cityscape into poetic, landscape-like visions. Alongside this, the exhibition introduces Yuki Onodera’s representative series “The World Is Not Small – 1826.” In this body of work, Onodera continues her exploration of photographic meaning and scale, challenging conventional perceptions of images and the worlds they depict. By presenting the works of Aki Lumi and Yuki Onodera in the same space, the exhibition creates a mysterious sense of synesthesia, where visual, conceptual, and perceptual experiences intersect. Visitors are invited to engage with the subtle interplay between the two practices and to experience the layered resonance that emerges from their coexistence.