- August 6th mon amour
August 6th mon amour
Artist
Silvia GiambroneYear
2015
Typology
Video-projection
Duration
Loop
Exhibition
Embracing the MomentDescription
In July 2013 the artist went to Hiroshima to interview two survivors of the atomic bomb. What really impressed her was that both said that even though they survived, the bomb never stopped detonating for them. Since for their whole lives, they had to hide that they had been to Hiroshima during the bombing.
For the H bomb survivors, in fact, it was very hard to find a job or get married, since they ran the risk anytime to get ill or have ill children. Somehow their lives got stuck after the bomb. Both the survivors told me that the worst time of their lives was not when the bomb was dropped but when they had to deal with love problems. He felt lost when he wasn’t allowed to marry his girlfriend (because of her father’s will) and she felt desperate when she lost her husband. It means that everyone of us has experienced his/her own
personal little Hiroshima. That’s why she took the image of the Hiroshima watch (the one that has been found after the bomb was dropped and that now is in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum) and moved the minute hand one minute later and added the second hand twitching for one second.
