Tomoko Yoneda
, Japanese, b.1965
Title
Freud's Glasses - viewing a text by Jung, 1988Date2003
MediumGelatin silver print
Dimensions
40.5 × 30.5 cm
Signedon verso, lower right: Tom Yon
Credit LinePresented, Zelda Cheatle, 2024
Object numberNGI.2024.71.30
DescriptionThe Japanese photographer Tomoko Yoneda has been based in London since 1991. Yoneda’s photographic practice involves extensive research to explore the hidden memories and histories related to certain places and objects. This photograph is from an important ongoing series – ‘Between Visible and Invisible (1998 - )’. It features black and white photographs of the actual eyeglasses worn by historically influential modern intellectuals, paired with photographs, musical scores or other texts that have a connection to them. This photograph shows a piece of writing by Carl Jung, who was Sigmund Freud’s student, as viewed through Freud’s own spectacles, in the Freud Museum in London. The text criticises Freud’s concept of the libido. The composition gives the viewer the impression of stepping into Freud’s shoes and allows us imagine how he himself would have felt reading this text.This image is part of a portfolio of 30 photographs published by Zelda Cheatle in 2003 to celebrate 15 years of exhibitions in her London gallery. The artists included in this collection reflect Cheatle’s aim to highlight the work of important twentieth century photographers while at the same time exhibiting and supporting emerging artists. The photographs range from digital prints to silver gelatin prints and cyanotypes.
Inscriptionon verso, lower right: Freud’s glasses – viewing a text by Jung II, 1998/ Tom Yon / 24/60
ProvenancePresented, Zelda Cheatle, 2024Exhibition HistoryZelda Cheatle Gallery , London, 2003