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Kei Ito’s solo exhibition Teach Me How to Like This Planet at the College of Maryland’s Stamp Gallery is a somber exploration of generational trauma as a third generation hibakusha (atomic bomb target), and the repercussions of war. Ito’s practice is based in camera-significantly less images, uncovered objects, and textual content-dependent artworks.

Two discovered item-will work develop haunting mechanical appears. “Talking Heads,” is an installation of two analogue radios on chest-superior pedestals with an eerie static noise and sporadic voices that audio like antique radio recordings, wherever “Who will be the up coming sacrifice of peace?” and “Who will be the following sacrifice of war?” is recurring slowly and gradually above and above.

The static, mechanical and human sounds construct an impression of a barren landscape, and the repetition of every single phrase feels both of those unsure and totally hopeless considering that it suggests an unending likelihood of conflict.

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Kei Ito, Night Lights Denver and The Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins project footage of nuclear bomb on the Daniels and Fisher Tower.

Tomorrow morning while most of Denver sleeps, light will strike the Daniels and Fisher Tower, memorializing the birth of the atom bomb.

Projected neon green light will wash over the tower, showing an explosion in reverse: a mushroom cloud contracting, and the bomb’s victims — mannequins, houses, vehicles — reconstructing, returning to their prior state and to a pre-nuclear world.

Frames from Aborning New Light by Kei Ito.

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The project, a video called Aborning New Light by Japan-born and Baltimore-based artist Kei Ito, is a reconstruction of archival government nuclear testing footage, edited to show the bomb testing in reverse. It’s a collaboration with Night Lights Denver, which projects large scale works of art downtown, and The Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins.

“There’s this idea that art is for certain people and it’s in certain places, and I love art for everybody,” said Hamidah Glasgow, executive director and curator of The Center for

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