EXHIBITION

Fukushima Mon Amour: You Saw Nothing in Fukushima

Studio 52 in Chai Wan Industrial City, Chai Wan, 02/12/2016 - 02/21/2016

60 Wing Tai Road, Chai Wan

ABOUT

APT artist Ayano Hattori, a Japanese artist based in Hong Kong from 2013 to 2015, exhibits photographs and short videos of the 2011 nuclear crisis befell on her native country. 
The works will be on view at the foundation’s space, Studio 52 in Chai Wan.

Fukushima Mon Amour (2012-) is a multimedia art project dealing with the post-Fukushima Japanese society in allusion to the 1959’s film, “Hiroshima Mon Amour”. Today in the society, Fukushima is not only the name of a city and a prefecture, but refers to the 3.11 disaster across the northeast Japan and the collapse of trust in nuclear energy and industry. It has an undertone of discrimination, indifference and forgetfulness towards the region. Fukushima Mon Amour: You Saw Nothing in Fukushima. introduces images of wounds and voices of human and nature in Fukushima that remain invisible and unheard.

You Saw Nothing in Fukushima. is a photography work, from Fukushima Mon Amour, of footages of the devastated region. In this show, 52 images of the aftermath will be presented as an installation. Through those images of a voyeuristic and instant view to the trauma, the viewers will be taken to a journey as witnesses. It causes the sharp boundary between those who experienced the trauma and who didn't. The 52 images range from decontamination: Fukushima covered by invisible radiation, to damages of the tsunami: the void, selected out of thousands of footages the artist captured during her trips. You saw nothing in Fukushima. is an allusion to a famous line in the masterpiece, ‘You saw nothing in Hiroshima.’, a conversation between a Japanese man and a French woman in a mirrored relationship.

Winds and Rain, Dead End, A Seabird, and Shore are short videos shot in the region. Banal images of Winds and Rain, and Dead End discuss what the Japanese society is facing today. A Seabird and Shore capture the sound of the aftermath. These imageries come closer to voiceless victims in the air, soil and ocean. 

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APT ARTISTS ON VIEW

Ayano HATTORI

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