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Inmost Archaeology

Born in Tokyo in 1969, Todo studied and lived for many years in Germany before returning to Japan. Thanks to a new perspective on his homeland, he began considering the archaeology of cities, with their rapid cycles of construction and destruction. For this new exhibition at Art Front Gallery, Todo passes from the use of natural stones or of book covers inlaid with glass, to the stones drawn from historic urban contexts. Fragments of construction, from the Berlin Wall, ruins from the Tohoku Disaster, or remains of from Tokyo’s structures built at the time of the 1964 …