fields of exposure
29°5548.26”S 131°42’28.98”E
37°02’11.48”N 116°02’05.99”W
50°35’26.35^N 77°50’50.35”E
2026
Silver gelatin prints, safelight. 58 cm x 84 cm
Installed in Sediments of Light and Time group exhibition. The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik.
These silver gelatin prints are derived from satellite images of three nuclear test sites: Maralinga, Australia, Nevada, USA, and Semipalatinsk, Kasakstan. Such landscapes have been misconceived as “shadow places”, remote and seemingly empty. The work draws a parallel between nuclear exposure and darkroom photographic exposure, where both register through light and leave hazardous residues.
Each print is divided. One half is developed chemically. the other with a plant-based developer made from foraged pine needles. A safelight above evokes both the space of image-making in the dark room and a distant warning signal.