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The concept of deriving the whole from its parts has far-reaching roots. Witnessed by the hunter, who searches among the foliage for traces of prints or excrement, or the physician, who since the conception of Hippocratic medicine has deduced diseases from symptoms. Like the art critic Giovanni Morelli, who claimed to be able to tell the true authorship of a painting from earlobes or fingernails, or Freud, who believed that tics or slips of the tongue reveal our innermost secrets, Yuya Suzuki divines the signs of a city's subconscious.

In his exhibition 'Urban Iconography' he …