Exhibition: Kei Ito: Staring at the Face of the Sun

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Sunday, April 28, 2024
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Saturday, April 27, 2024 All Day
Sunday, April 28, 2024 All Day
Monday, April 29, 2024 All Day
Tuesday, April 30, 2024 All Day

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Georgia Museum of Art
90 Carlton Street
Athens GA 30602
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Kei Ito uses photography to examine the intergenerational trauma of nuclear disaster and the possibilities of healing and reconciliation. Ito’s grandfather, who survived the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, described the day as if there were “hundreds of suns lighting up the sky.” Ito uses camera-less techniques, exposing light-sensitive material to sunlight for the length of a single breath. In this way, he ties the invisibility of radiation (whether from the sun or nuclear weaponry) to the life-breath of the human body. Ito’s work also connects nuclear war’s impact abroad to the effects of nuclear testing on “down-winders” on the American continent. As a result, he poignantly underscores our collective inheritance in the nuclear age, as both the attacker and the attacked suffer at an apocalyptic, global scale.
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