Intriguing
exhibition at the National Maritime Museum showing the work of ten artists who
took part in an expedition to the Marshall Islands in 2023 which were affected
by the testing of nuclear weapons in the 50s and 60s.
The show included
some interesting work but more importantly highlighted the story of the islands
and the issues they face from the testing and climate change. I was amazed to
learn in one explosion in 1954 three islands were obliterated.
I liked these
imagined machines by Solomon Ends which were painted on the beaches on the
island. They are imagined devices which would draw radiation and poison out of
the sand and transform it into clean air.
Closes 4 October
2026
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