Trajectory of Tomiyama Taeko’s Art as seen in Wild Grass: Our Lives, the 8th Yokohama Triennale.

For over seven decades, Tomiyama Taeko (1921-2021) created powerful works across various media, including lithography, painting, collage, and multimedia slide/DVD projects. Working on the fringes of the art world, she developed a unique practice that revisits histories obscured by nationalist rhetoric, reimagining narratives of colonization and war from postcolonial and feminist perspectives. Often overlooked in mainstream postwar Japanese art narratives, her work has nonetheless sparked transnational dialogues and reconciliation. This paper discusses the trajectory of selected works by the artist exhibited in 'My Liberation,' part of the 8th Yokohama Triennale, Wild Grass: Our Lives (March 15-June 9, 2024).