SETSUKO ONO Solo Exhibition Daiwa Foundation Japan House, London 16 th February 2018 – 9 th March 2018 Written by Anvi A large mixed media scroll titled ‘Resistance to overwhelming force’ that portrays figures and forms in various states of defiance along with candid echoes of Picasso’s ‘Guernica’ is spread out gravely across adjacent walls. A few meters across, a wooden sculpture titled ‘Victory’ rises up headless and unabashed from a plinth with its arched back capturing a moment of ecstatic release. This seamless meandering between contrasts and antonyms occurs organically in the works; both in the use of materials and the subject matter. The serious and the playful, the political and the personal, the deep and the lighthearted, the realistic and the abstract - all strike a languid equilibrium in the visual language, and that sets the pulse of Setsuko San’s very first exhibition in London. This invisible undulating rhyth