elin o'Hara slavick
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      • Chemical Drawings
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      • Autoradiograph
      • Video
    • Bomb after Bomb >
      • Statement
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      • Everyone Stands Beneath Their Own Dome of Heaven or Hell
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After Hiroshima is a bilingual monograph of work made in Hiroshima until 2013, with an essay by James Elkins. The book includes an autoradiograph, cyanotypes of A-bombed artifacts from the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum Archive and organic matter, and silver gelatin contact prints of rubbings of A-bombed surfaces in Hiroshima. These photographic images of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Fukushima, Japan, are attempts to visually, poetically, and historically address the magnitude of what disappeared as a result of, and what remains after, the dropping of the Atomic bombs Little Boy and Fat Man on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 and the Dai'ichi Nuclear Disaster in 2011. They are images of loss and survival, fragments and lives, architecture and skin, surfaces and invisible things, like radiation. Exposure is at the core of this project: exposure to radiation, to the sun, to light, to history, and exposures made from radiation, the sun, and light. After Hiroshima engages ethical seeing, visually registers warfare, and addresses the irreconcilable paradox of making visible the most barbaric as witness, artist, and viewer.
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  • Work
    • 528 Nuclear Tests >
      • Chemical Drawings
      • Video
    • After Hiroshima >
      • Billboards
      • Cyanotypes
      • Rubbings
      • Autoradiograph
      • Video
    • Bomb after Bomb >
      • Statement
    • Workers Dreaming >
      • Statement
    • Collages >
      • Everyone Stands Beneath Their Own Dome of Heaven or Hell
    • Catharses / Antidotes
    • Select Exhibitions
  • About
    • CV
    • Contact
  • Press & Publications
    • Press & Publications