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SUMMARY:นิทรรศการ \"RADIUM GIRLS\"
DESCRIPTION:RADIUM GIRLS\nA solo exhibition by resident artist Claude 
 Estèbe\nToot Yung Art Center\n7 Sept - 13 Oct 2013\nOpening reception
  Saturday 7 Sept starting 7pm\n\nThe Toot Yung Art Centre is proud to 
 present, for the 3rd consecutive year, the latest works by French phot
 ographer Claude Estèbe.\nEstèbe started this new series in the wake 
 of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan in 2011. At this time Estè
 be, specialist in the field of Japanese visual culture, was already en
 gaged in a research about Godzilla and Japanese monster movies. This s
 eries eventually links his previous works involving cheap mass produce
 d toys and his long time research on Japanese subculture.\nHis body of
  works reflects the ambivalent fascination for atomic energy and techn
 ology. The plastic dolls, monsters and robots collected as photographi
 c models are shot in fragments to deconstruct the harsh social realiti
 es involved in the deeper meaning of his images.\nEstèbe uses subcult
 ure artefacts and visual codes to counterbalance corporate propaganda 
 with a warped sense of humor. He was ironically inspired for some shot
 s, by the 1930’s ads for radium based “miracle” cosmetic brands 
 like “Tho-radia” and their “glow in the dark” lighting.\n“Ra
 dium Girls” is a reference to the 1920’s lawsuit filed by five dyi
 ng young women against the US Radium Corporation for letting them work
  with fluorescent radium paint without any protection. The company's m
 anagement concealed the risks of radioactivity to their employees but 
 took considerable precautions for themselves. Eventually, helped by wi
 de media coverage, the Radium Girls won their case in the fall of 1928
 . Some died soon afterwards.\nEstebe challenges the uncanny difficulty
  of embodying radioactivity. It’s either an invisible threat – lik
 e an increased probability of cancer –, or an overwhelming disaster 
 beyond comprehension, as its effects are out of human scale.\nEstèbe 
 produces a quite oxymoric dialectical relationship between a sensual, 
 intellectual, and dramatic experience between the modern world technol
 ogies and its dangers.\nAbout Claude Estèbe\nClaude Estèbe is a Fren
 ch contemporary art photographer. He is currently living in Paris wher
 e he teaches Japanese visual culture at INALCO University and works as
  an expert in photography for Guimet Museum. He published The Last Sam
 ourais and was a fellow artist at French Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto in 20
 01. In April 2013, he was one of the curators of the first edition of 
 Kyotographie International Photography Festival.\n\nFor more informati
 on visit http://www.portfolios.net/events/radium-girls
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CATEGORIES:art, exhibition, photo, photography
LOCATION:Toot Yung Art Center
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