Artist Gallery

2023.10.12

GENPATSU : a landscape transcend time

GENPATSU (Nuclear power plants)
inevitably shape the landscape.
It’s transcend time and stay where it is.

 

In Japan, 59 nuclear power plants have been constructed, but more than 20 plants have already been decided to retire so far.

But, their retirement plan is unclear because they always imply technical and social issues.Many of them will likely stay where they are now longer than they are supposed to be.

Hence, they become a landscape.

I’ ve covered so many issues related to nuclear plants such as facilily equipment failure and anti-nuke campaign, etc., since I was a news reporter.

But, the argument has never been ending and nobody found a right answer, then public opinion has been playing on the politicians who have power from time to time.

What the hell are nuclear plants?

I am a retired news reporter, but my curiosity about nuclear plants has never been changed.

To know what they are and to see how they are there, I’ve been touring nuclear plans around Japan and capturing them as a landscape.

To figure out the true nature of nuclear power plants, I’ve adopted an antique printing technique called Van Dyke brown print, which eliminates color and lacks detailed depiction.

These constructions in the brownish screens are objects for present, for the past, or for the future?

Nuclear plants captured by an antique printing technique transend time and stay where they are.

April 2023
Maco (Masahiro Yabuta)

 

• April 2023 Kyoto KG+ 2023 at Gallery Hillgate (Videoshoot by Maco)
  
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykzO6RKGMdo

 

GENPATSU : a landscape transcend time
KG+ 2023 KYOTOGRAPHIE Official Program
Period: April 11-23, 2023
Venue: Gallery Hillgate
Sanjo Agaru, Teramachi, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto