展覧会「ひろしま/hiroshima」
Amid intensifying conflicts around the world, some of them associated with nuclear threats, Hiroshima’s experience as history’s first nuclear target is increasingly remembered and highlighted. The city’s image both as a site of war devastation and as a symbol of peace has been emphasised and selectively used for political purposes and in attempts to shape narratives, whilst the everyday reality of its inhabitants and their personal memories have largely been overlooked.
To mark the 80th anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bombing, this exhibition of work by three acclaimed Japanese women artists shifts its gaze to another side of the city and its people – the changes, the things that remain, the personal and genuine memories – the everyday, the ordinary, and contemporary society. This exhibition encourages us to see Hiroshima differently, as a city that was traumatised, once again teeming with life.
Ishiuchi Miyako breathes new life into personal belongings, reviving the individual memories of those who once lived in Hiroshima. Through this process, she seeks to liberate these objects from the confines of a fixed historical narrative. Ishiuchi requested that her work be shown alongside that of two other artists, Fujioka Aya and Sasaoka Keiko.
Fujioka Aya captures the city’s current tensions and dynamism through street photography from the perspective of the people living in present-day Hiroshima, seeking to evoke the memory of Hiroshima’s past from its present.
Sasaoka Keiko has spent years photographing Hiroshima as a ‘Park City’, documenting the traces of memories that have vanished from today’s urban landscape to allow us to consider the significance of seeing what is no longer visible.
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Wednesday 10 September 2025 － Monday 24 November 2025
Monday–Friday 9:30 am–5:00 pm (excluding public holidays)
Admission free
Daiwa Foundation Japan House
13/14 Cornwall Terrace (Outer Circle)
London
NW1 4QP
