Elena Knox / Ryoko Yashima
Video Screening
Under the Surface
2025.9.17 (Wed.) − 9.27 (Sat.)
Opening hours：12:00 – 18:00
Closed on Sundays, Mondays, and holidays
*The gallery will also be open on 9.23 (Tue./Holiday).
Closing Party “chill, chill, fulfilled”:
9.27（Sat.）18:00 – 20:00
*Two artists will attend, and there will be a performance action by Knox and a gallery talk by Yashima.
*Opening reception will not be held.
*This exhibition includes works that contain sexual content. Minors should view with parental consent, while adults are encouraged to use their own discretion.
We at ANOMALY are pleased to announce a special 9-day video screening of works by two female artists, Elena Knox and Ryoko Yashima, titled Under the Surface from September 17 (Wed.) to September 27 (Sat.), 2025.
Living in Tokyo since 2016, Australia-born artist Elena Knox’s work cuts through digital media, performance, sound, music, and installation. Her acclaimed projects examine how technological civilizations evolve to mimic human desires for self-replication.
Ryoko Yashima was born and lives in Hiroshima. Last year at ANOMALY she presented work from her project “Memento Momo”, during which she had raised a pig from a piglet, slaughtered it, and consumed its meat. Drawing upon both her immediate surroundings and societal structures, Yashima creates delicate but powerful works with a range of media such as video, photography, sculpture, installation, and writing.
This installed screening focuses on a selection of past works by the two artists under the shared motif “human”. Through their distinct approaches, social issues and personal narratives that lie beneath the human skin will emerge. We hope it will offer an opportunity to release our gaze from mere “appearance” and encounter the often-unseen reality concealed behind.
What’s on:
Born in Australia,1975. Lives and works in Tokyo.
Elena Knox’s art cuts through digital media, performance, sound, music, and installation. Her projects examine how technological civilization evolves to mimic human desires for self-replication.
Knox’s artworks are in increasing demand internationally. She won the Apex Art New York international curatorial competition for her exhibition “Can You Fuck It?” in Tokyo (2022). She created solo shows for Tokyo Arts and Space (2021–22); Koganecho Bazaar, Yokohama (2019), and UNSW Galleries, Sydney (2017, 2015), and is participating globally in top-tier exhibitions, including: Seoul International New Media Festival (2024); Ars Electronica (2023); Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition (2023); Foundation, Videotage Hong Kong (2023); Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial (2022); ICC Annual, Tokyo Opera City (2022); Spectra, Australian Network for Art & Technology (2022); Art Machines 2, Hong Kong (2021); Mori Art Museum (2019–20); Bangkok Art Biennale (2020); Yokohama Triennale (2020); Beijing Media Art Biennale (2018–19); AS-Helix: The Integration of Art and Science in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, National Museum of China (2019); Algorithmic Art, Hong Kong City Hall (2019); Synthetic Mediart, Taipei Expo Park (2019); and , Art Sonje Center, Seoul (2017).
Born in Hiroshima, 1993. Lives and works in Hiroshima.
Yashima’s work explores the visualisation of pain on the human skin, and (fading memories of) her grandmother’s suffering experience of war and the atomic bombing.
Since 2019, she has been working on a project “Memento Momo”, in which she raised and slaughtered a pig with her own hands and consumed its meat. Through her relationship with the pig, Yashima examines social structures, pursuing expression across a range of media such as video, photography, sculpture, installation and writing. Her first book, “Memento Momo” published in Japan in September 2024. In addition to her artistic practice, Yashima has also been managing the non-profit gallery ART BASE MOMOSHIMA since 2017. Her recent exhibitions include Virtual Bodies: Absence/Presence in Media (2022, The Chinretsukan Gallery, Tokyo University of the Arts), Bodies Embodied (2024, ANOMALY, Tokyo), A STORY OF SPEED (2025, Zuiun-an, Kyoto).