Ken + Julia Yonetani "Crystal Palace"

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Ken + Julia Yonetani

Ken + Julia Yonetani is an internationally acclaimed unit of Japanese and Australian artists who transform environmental and social issues into aesthetic and humorous works of art through a variety of expressive methods, including installation, performance, sculpture and video.

This exhibition will feature “Crystal Palace: The Great Exposition of Industrial Works from All Nuclear Power Plants,” an installation of chandeliers made of uranium glass, which is one of their representative works. Each piece of this work is named after a country that possesses nuclear power plants. And the size of the chandelier is proportional to the total size of the power output (megawatts: see IAEA data) produced by the country’s nuclear power plants. The creation of this work began after the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011, and now 32 countries are present.

This work is named after the Crystal Palace, a huge, all-glass structure built in Hyde Park as the site of the world’s first world’s fair, the London World’s Fair, held in 1851.

The work illuminates the problems that exist in the shadows of industrial policies and economic development around the world with a bewitchingly beautiful green light unique to uranium glass, and asks us questions about these problems.

Schedule

Jan 30 (Thu) 2025-Mar 16 (Sun) 2025