103 Trongate
Until 20 Dec
Jerwood/Photoworks Awards 5 Roman Manfredi and Sayuri Ichida 12 th Sept – 20 th December 2026 Both artists will be giving a talk on Saturday 12th September at 1pm, followed by an opening reception from 2 till 4pm. Expanded photography works using still and moving image, sound and installation by Roman Manfredi and Sayuri Ichida will be presented as two solo shows within one UK touring exhibition throughout 2026 as awardees of the fifth Jerwood/Photoworks Awards. Both series of new works look at specific locations and share reflections on broader society. While both artists attempt to depict what is not always visible, Ichida explores how shifting landscapes quietly reshape the fabric of community life, and Roman reflects on how communities remain tethered to landscapes held still, frozen in time and memory. TRA by Roman Manfredi draws inspiration from the ancient Neapolitan figure of the femminiello, a revered presence considered spiritually favourable, the work pays homage to locals who live outside binary gender expectations. The word tra , Italian for a state of being between, among and within, speaks in this work to an energetic space where masculine and feminine converge and dissolve, and categories blur into something more elemental. While dual-spirited identities have often been acknowledged in male-assigned bodies, female-born expressions of gender variance have historically been dismissed or disparaged, often carrying cultural and class-based stigma. Following the discovery of an archival photograph of the artist’s nonna, in a scene that is seemingly the wedding of two women, Roman wondered whether there may have been another experience of queerness in the family, deepening the desire to explore local histories. Journeying through Napoli, where the landscape is caught between time periods, Roman traces connections between people and place. Sayuri Ichida’s work, 空席 (Kūseki) , meaning “empty seats”, addresses Japan’s rapid population decline, with rural commu
Not the same tradition as the lineage above — a genuinely different thread to pull, if you want one.