A Body in Fukushima

Acclaimed artist Eiko Otake has made five trips to Fukushima in the wake of the 2011 nuclear disaster Collaborating with William Johnston a photographer and scholar of Japanese history Otakes multidisciplinary project transforms the irradiated landscape into a site for performance The artists movementsin empty train stations overgrown roads tsunamidamaged buildings along broken seawalls and amidst makeshift memorialsdwell in the residue of life before the meltdown while also charting the passage of time in these inhabitable lands A Body in Fukushima is culled from tens of thousands of photographs whose mournful but resolute march creates a letter to the future My body will carry a piece of Fukushima writes the artist I hope the viewers sense of their own distance to Fukushima might also change