Fukushima 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, …, 2013, …, 2023

Fukushima 1, 3, 5, L’äge atomique, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris, 2024

The drawings are guided by mental images as much as reference images taken from the media. The faceless bodies and identities of the men and women who saved us haunted the canvas long after the events. A silent, invisible and anonymous mass, they represented the only possible images of redemption, highlighting the paradox that care, rendered anonymous, is almost inhuman. These images then spread from crisis to crisis: that of the Corona virus in particular, then those of the wars, in the rubble of Kiev, Kibbutz Re’im or the ruins of Gaza. Without transition, the drawings have been continuously fed with these images, the ghosts have invaded our daily lives, and the series, which began in 2013, has continued for more than ten years, like a filter of time that has irradiated our lives.

In “L’äge atomique” , catalogue, Paris-Musée, MAM, Paris, Julia Garimoth and Maria Stravinaki, 2024

Fukushima 1, metallic pencils, Canson paper, 3, 15m x 0,75m, 2012
Fukushima 2, metallic pencils, Canson paper, 2,80m x 0,75m, 2013. Coll. D. Kolnikov
Fukushima 3, metallic pencils, Canson paper, 4, 15m x 0,75m, 2013
Fukushima 4, metallic pencils, Canson paper, 3, 15m x 0,75m, 2014. Coll. Frac Bretagne
Fukushima 5, metallic pencils, Canson paper, 4, 25m x 0,75m, 2016.
Fukushima 6, metallic pencils, Canson paper, 2,70m x 0,75m, 2019. Coll. Monteil-Renon
Fukushima 7, metallic pencils, Canson paper, 3,70m x 0,75m, 2021
Fukushima 8, metallic pencils, Canson paper, 4,15m x 0,75m, 2022

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