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"Tokyo Kinetic," a collection of works by Japanese photographer Fusako Kodama (1958–), is set in 1990s Tokyo, a city covered in advertising and superficial urban clutter. Kodama turned her camera as if searching for "the memories of a changing city." From the heart of the city, such as Shibuya, Shinjuku, and Ikebukuro, to back alleys, construction sites, and enclosed spaces, her gaze quietly captures the loneliness and anxiety that permeate the city's brilliance. Reconstructing the city, enveloped in excessive information and light, with a calm sense of distance and delicate composition, this work is like "the ruins of the present" that future archaeologists will discover a thousand years from now. These photographs, which are both records and poems, are a representative collection of Kodama's work, simultaneously capturing the transience and strength of the city of Tokyo.