Yoko Ono | Vertical Memory

Yoko Ono

Vertical Memory

Tokyo, Japan: Gallery 360º, 2001

[42] pp., 12 x 20.5 cm., loose leaves

Edition of 81 signed and numbered copies

 

Part of Ono’s lesser known/lesser “Conceptual Photography’ series, Vertical Memory consists of twenty-one offset prints, a title page and a colophon, housed in a dark green cloth box (a Japanese edition of 81 is contained in a blue box). The images are identical portraits - computer composites of John Lennon, Sean Lennon and Ono’s father Eisuke Ono (a banker and former classical pianist). 

The identical portraits are paired with twenty-one different texts - fragments of experience and memory, fictitious and real. 

Last week The Tate announced that it would host the largest retrospective exhibition of Ono’s work to date in the UK, in February 2024. Titled Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind, the exhibition will bring together 200 works including instruction pieces and scores, installations, films, music and photography. 

For more information, visit the Tate site, here.