Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix

Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix Art gallery in Spitalfields, East London
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Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix is pleased to present ´Breakdown’, the first solo exhibition in a London commercial gallery of wo...
03/06/2026

Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix is pleased to present ´Breakdown’, the first solo exhibition in a London commercial gallery of work by Yvonne Mabs Francis (1945 - 2025), featuring paintings from her Breakdown series alongside a body of related drawings. A survivor of long-term mental illness, Francis described her work as an attempt to make the experience of psychosis visible, commonplace and survivable for those living through it. This exhibition marks an overdue recognition of a body of work whose subject remains as urgent today as when it was made.

Dramatic in scale, rich in symbolism with vivid saturated colours, each painting of Francis is a visual reckoning with the psychotic breakdown the artist suffered in 1969 following the death of her father. Admitted to a mental institution at the time, she did not return to painting for some eleven years, eventually beginning the Breakdown series in 1999. Francis confronts the struggle of managing her mental health, using creativity to untangle the obsessive thoughts and demons living inside her head.

Her drawing works are studies of female bodies subjected to seemingly forced or violent medical intervention. Despite their dreamlike, otherworldly settings — bucolic landscapes delicately rendered with floating birds, flowers and fish — the merciless, piercing gaze of the central female figures and the skulls and inauspicious motifs scattered throughout reveal the complex, layered meanings of these intricate drawings.

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Opening hours during
5 Fri June : 11am-6pm
6 Sat June : 11am-6pm
7 Sun June: 12pm-5pm

Opening reception 6pm -9pm, Fri 5 June
Guided tour by the curator 2pm Sun 7 June

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1 The Impossibility of Being in the Brain of Someone Living, 2003, oil on canvas, 243cm x172cm
2 The Bodily Time Machine, 1999, oil on canvas, 183cm x 137cm
3. The Quality Control, circa 2013, pencil and colour pencil on paper, 77cm x 57cm
4. Receiving Blood, circa 2013, pencil and colour pencil on paper, 77cm x 57cm

📸 for 3. and 4.

Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix is pleased to open tonight ‘La pelle del paesaggio’ by Alessandro Roma. This solo exhibition feat...
17/04/2026

Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix is pleased to open tonight ‘La pelle del paesaggio’ by Alessandro Roma. This solo exhibition features four large-format paintings that create a loosely immersive installation on the gallery’s ground floor, accompanied by a video performance that invites the audience into the artist’s personal universe.

The ground-floor installation forms a protective “cocoon” that may, unexpectedly, evoke a sense of trespassing into a private, forbidden world meant to be kept secret. Towering from the gallery’s irregular walls, these works envelop the viewer in an intimate, organic environment. This organic quality stems from the large, plant-like forms―figures that inhabit the canvas like oversized butterflies, reigning over an eerie, mostly nocturnal underworld. Roma refers to these paintings as “landscapes” which are effectively visualisations of his innermost psychological workings.

In the basement gallery, the artist debuts his video work, ‘La pelle del paesaggio’ (The Skin of the Landscape). In this experimental piece, Roma pushes his concept to the extreme, aligning his metaphysical universe with the physical natural world. Across five movements―Mountain, River, Tree, Sun, and Root―a performer animates the paintings of Roma’s intimate world, depicting the struggle and joy of existing as “part of the whole.” Accompanied by the original music of Guillermo Lago for saxophone and choir ( Groupe Vocale Viriditas), the work takes on the allure of a chamber opera. It serves as a reminder that nature is the most grandiose theatre of all, and that the mind constantly assimilates the environments we inhabit.








Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix is pleased to announce ‘La pelle del paesaggio’ by Alessandro Roma . This solo exhibition featur...
29/03/2026

Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix is pleased to announce ‘La pelle del paesaggio’ by Alessandro Roma . This solo exhibition features five large-format paintings that create a loosely immersive installation on the gallery’s ground floor, accompanied by a video performance that invites the audience into the artist’s personal universe.

The ground-floor installation forms a protective “cocoon” that may, unexpectedly, evoke a sense of trespassing into a private, forbidden world meant to be kept secret. Towering from the gallery’s irregular walls, these works envelop the viewer in an intimate, organic environment. This organic quality stems from the large, plant-like forms―figures that inhabit the canvas like oversized butterflies, reigning over an eerie, mostly nocturnal underworld. Roma refers to these paintings as “landscapes” which are effectively visualisations of his innermost psychological workings.

In the basement gallery, the artist debuts his video work, ‘La pelle del paesaggio’ (The Skin of the Landscape). In this experimental piece, Roma pushes his concept to the extreme, aligning his metaphysical universe with the physical natural world. Across five movements―Mountain, River, Tree, Sun, and Root―a performer animates the paintings of Roma’s intimate world, depicting the struggle and joy of existing as “part of the whole.” Accompanied by the original music of Guillermo Lago for saxophone and choir ( Groupe Vocale Viriditas), the work takes on the allure of a chamber opera. It serves as a reminder that nature is the most grandiose theatre of all, and that the mind constantly assimilates the environments we inhabit.





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Today, 2:30 Kuamen performs ‘Creep to the mic like a phantom’Closing event of the artist’s first UK exhibition curated ...
14/02/2026

Today, 2:30
Kuamen performs ‘Creep to the mic like a phantom’
Closing event of the artist’s first UK exhibition curated by Christine Eyene.

The event will be broadcast live on Instagram.

Tune in at 2.30 on

2:30pm today 14 Saturday! will enact a new performance ‘Creep to the mic like a phantom’ to finish his solo show of th...
14/02/2026

2:30pm today 14 Saturday!

will enact a new performance ‘Creep to the mic like a phantom’ to finish his solo show of the same title, showcasing yet another side of his multi-talent, as a performance and rap artist.

All welcome!

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Kuamen: Creep to the mic like a phantomExtended until 13 Dec Exhibition view with curator Christine Eyene📷 Kuamen
01/11/2025

Kuamen: Creep to the mic like a phantom
Extended until 13 Dec

Exhibition view with curator Christine Eyene
📷 Kuamen

‘In This World’ a solo presentation of Delaine Le Bas at Frieze London 2025 Stand F04. Le Bas is enacting a perfor...
16/10/2025

‘In This World’ a solo presentation of Delaine Le Bas at Frieze London 2025 Stand F04. Le Bas is enacting a performance with Ronke Osinowo at 11:30am today!

Please join us on Sunday 12 Oct, 2pm-4pm, at the gallery for a conversation between : poet, rapper and multidisciplinar...
02/10/2025

Please join us on Sunday 12 Oct, 2pm-4pm, at the gallery for a conversation between : poet, rapper and multidisciplinary artist and curator Christine Eyene .prjx

Hosted as part of “Kuamen: Creep to the mic like a phantom”, curated by Eyene, the conversation will introduce the dialogue that has led to the exhibition’s theme and selection of works.

Beyond visual practice, it will explore the diverse genres of music, notably hip-hop, that accompany both the artist and curator’s respective thinking, making, and writing, across identity formation, assertion, and social positioning.

Likewise, the artist and curator will share poems and excerpts of texts informing some of the works in the exhibition, their interpretation, and their inscription within Afro-European experiences — specifically in the French context —, as well as Afro-Diasporic resonances in Britain and beyond.

Finally, the conversation will situate Kuamen’s work within various art historical geographies, chronologies, and genres: from the heritage of African masks to the Black aesthetics of Barkley Hendricks, via Caravaggio.

The event is a part of the East End Day for Frieze London 2025

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Thursday 11am - 6pm
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