Zhou Yan Contemporary Chinese Art Archive 周彦当代中国艺术档案
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Date
8-1995
Format
Slide
Location of Exhibition Event
Hiroshima, Japan; New York City, the U.S.
Materials
Ash, fax machines, papers
Description
This work was created in response to the 50th Anniversary of the dropping of the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. In hoping that this tragedy will never recur, the artist built this installation at two sites----Hiroshima, Japan and New York City, the U.S.. A fax machine is raised on a platform in the center of a hole on the ground. A layer of ash is spread on the surface of the hole. At 12:00 am on August 6th, 1995, New York time, the fax machine started to receive documents from the U.S. site. Each page has a dove drawn by one national representative and the national flag attached at the lower right corner. As stated by the artist, there were hundreds of pages sent to Hiroshima, each representing a country in the world. These faxes were sent continuously for hours from the New York site to Hiroshima. Once it reaches the site of Hiroshima, pages will fly down to the ground from the raised platform, becoming doves flying to the ashes. The artist hopes to deliver a message of everlasting peace across people and nations through this work. (More information can be found on https://digital.kenyon.edu/zhoudocs/455/). (Yifan Shang '25)
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