ARTWORK

The Voice within the Voice “Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear disaster of March 11, 2011”
2025

Solvent inkjet print
H1030mm W688mm

This work was created for the “Marginal Art Fair Fukushima Hirono” held in Hirono town, an area affected by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident, in January 2025, as a response to the work “Fragmented Dreams” (2021) by Ukrainian artist Maria Proshkowska .
Proshkowska’s work uses Soviet-era film found in the area affected by the Chernobyl nuclear accident to photograph the mosaic tiles “Blacksmiths of the Present” created by Ukrainian artists Halyna Zubchenko and Hryhorii Pryshedko between 1972 and 1974 and installed at the Institute for Nuclear Research of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

I was so impressed by her work that I created this as part of the series “The Voice within the voice,” which uses sonographic figures extracted from the audio tracks of news footage.
The background of sonographic figures is a photograph of a worker at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident site. On top of that, I placed 20 mysterious shapes that I had collected from the sonographs of the audio track of the news footage reporting on the accident. These shapes are not letters or words, but they are the embodiment of the inexpressible feelings of those affected by the nuclear disaster, and the atmosphere at the site of accident that was left out of the news video.