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For AIPAD 2018, De Soto Gallery will present works by Osamu Yokonami: new images exhibited for the first time from his ongoing Assembly series (2012-2017) alongside highlights from the entire body of work, and a 75-piece installation of portraits from his prodigious1000 Children project (2010-2013). Created in tandem, the twin series consider conceptions of selfhood and the subtleties of human emotion, suggesting an essential congruence between individual expression and communal belonging.

For 1000 Children, Yokonami photographed one thousand schoolgirls in identical dress and setting. In …