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Anastasia Samoylova’s Image Cities represents a sprawling international tour through the world’s most significant urban centers, which together form a powerful interconnected global network of cultural and economic influence.

Throughout 17 cities, which include New York, Paris, London, Zurich, Tokyo, and Milan, among others, Samoylova trains her lens intently on the public-facing images that saturate the surfaces of these metropolises and forms a critical and lyrical study of how such images exert their influences on urban inhabitants. In doing so, the artist shows us not what is unique to …