First Anniversary and Tokyo Flâneur Vol. 2

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Tokyo Flâneur Vol. 2

Our first exhibition was called Tokyo Flâneur: Through The Eyes of Stroller. The exhibition was centered around the gallery’s core concept, which is the significance of wandering and discovering a city or neighborhood without a defined endpoint.

Beginning on January 19 and concluding on February 18, 2024, the second edition of the exhibition will take place. We are thrilled to welcome four new artists to the gallery for this exhibition.

Johan Brooks

Johan Brooks is a freelance photojournalist and street photographer from Tokyo, Japan. He was born in the UK, grew up in NYC, and eventually found his way to Japan, where he has lived for over ten years. He is a member of the VoidTokyo photography collective.

“The Erosion Beneath” (2020-2021) is a photography series attempting to document the mental toll exacted on people during the COVID-19 pandemic, largely through optical exploitation of objects available in the environment to distort and isolate individuals in scenes of their everyday lives.

Johans’s pieces will be displayed in streetlamps 1, 12, 17, 22, 29, 32, and 41.

Veronika Ikonnikova

Veronika is a Ukrainian-born architect and artist. Her endeavors seek the same goal: to find and communicate the beauty of the environment around us.

Presented here is a series of illustration works called ‘to-ma-re.’ to-ma-re (literally means ‘stop’) is a sign characteristic of small, secondary streets in Japan. While being practical traffic signage, these works show ‘to-ma-re’ as a symbol with a deeper meaning. Here, the ‘to-ma-re’ sign urges the passer-by to stop in the flow of everyday life and appreciate the unique beauty found in that exact moment.

Veronica’s pieces will be displayed in streetlamps 1, 12, 17, 22, 29, 32, and 41.

Tasuku Innami

Born in Tokyo in 1994, Tasuku graduated from Tama Art University with a major in painting and a focus on Japanese painting. Tasuku started creating paintings and illustrations about “Oni” and Japanese demons.

Tasuku’s pieces will be displayed in streetlamps 2, 7, 14, 19, 26, 33, and 39.

Mateusz Urbanowicz

Mateusz Urbanowicz is a Polish artist based in Tokyo. He presents a choice of watercolor paintings from his “Tokyo at Night” body of work and a bestselling art book of the same title. Come, let’s walk through the night side of the city.

Mateusz’s pieces will be displayed in streetlamps 6, 10, 18, 24, 30, 35, and 40.

Lorenzo Menghi

Born and raised in Italy, Lorenzo Menghi arrived in Tokyo in 2018, where he started shooting its streets. “Uramichi-Jinshu” is a collection of photographs from his night walks with a particular focus on the silent living beings that populate the streets of the Tokyo metropolis.

Lorenzo’s pieces will be displayed in streetlamps 4, 8, 13, 21, 27, 31, and 38.

Toto Tvalavadze

Tokyo-based Georgian photographer and independent photo bookmaker. He is focused on small-scale projects about life in the city and how the sprawling urban environment influences its occupants.

“The Moment I Stood Still” is a select series of images from Toto’s extensive walks in Tokyo. Instant-camera photos capture fleeting moments of reflection that occur during each meditative walk.

Toto’s pieces will be displayed in streetlamps 3, 9, 16, 20, 28, 36, and 37.

We hope you enjoy this new exhibition and visit the area. You can click here for a detailed map of the location.

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