A jornalista e crítica Fátima Gigliotti, escreve sobre meu trabalho na ArtInfo, um dos maiores sites internacionais sobre arte.
“No trabalho do fotógrafo mexicano Jan Smith na exposição Tours de Césio há uma aura de quase impossibilidade…. como é possível encontrar beleza no completo abandono?”
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Selecionadas para a XV Bienal de Fotografia no México, chamadas pelo Cape Times da África do Sul como “belas composições da ausência” e descritas pelo Mainichi Shimbun do Japão como “uma voz visual firme e elegante”, a série chega de forma íntegra ao Brasil pela primeira vez.
A radiação é invisível. É desafiante mostrar sua capacidade destrutora a não ser por meio do retrato da desolação e do abandono. As imagens reunidas em Tours de Césio mergulham na intimidade dos espaços pessoais que tiveram que ser abandonados. Elas falam sobre a permanência e o direito de pertencer à aquilo que não pôde ser mais habitado. Continue reading “Exposição Tours de Césio – Fotógrafo Mexicano Jan Smith”
A couple of hours ago I pleasantly discovered that Positive Magazine finally ran a brief feature on my nuclear work in Fukushima and Chernobyl. They said they would be doing so since early April. Although later than expected, it now is a nice boost to the exhibition that is making its debut in Sao Paulo. Glad they liked the work, but other portfolios are feeling a bit unloved….
Yellow Cake Art Yellow cake is used in the preparation uranium fuel for nuclear reactors.
In 2006, twenty years after the Chernobyl disaster a group of seven artists from Russia, Belarus and Germany entered the abandoned city of Pripyat to create street art. Their work was a tribute to the former inhabitants. Unfortunately, barely six years later, many of the pieces are fading or falling victim to the elements. Yellow Cake Art is a visual tour of the pieces I found while exploring Pripyat and developing my own work on nuclear landscapes. This is a tribute to their work. You can see the entire slide show here: Yellow Cake Art
To see the original project of Konstatin Danilov, Denis Averyanov, Ivan Malakhov, Kim Koster, Tobias Starke, Sergey Abramchuk, and Niels Grugel please visit here. Continue reading “Graffiti in Chernobyl – April 26”
Mexican photographer Jan Smith made it his mission to show the world the untold human stories behind nuclear disasters. To coincide with the first anniversary of Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster in March, Smith brought his Nuclear Disaster Stories exhibition to Cape Town in partnership with the Koeberg Alert Alliance. Smith’s debut exhibition in South Africa included a world-first release of images taken in Fukushima in February. by Fem Eggers Continue reading “Truth Well Told – Interview with Art Photographer Jan Smith”