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Article: KRZYSZTOF WODICZKO.(Brief Article)
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- Artforum International
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- December 1, 2000
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GALERIE LELONG
"Like you I have longed for a memory beyond consolation, for a memory of shadows and stones." These words (by Marguerite Duras) are delivered deadpan and lumbering by the female protagonist in the opening dialogue of Alain Resnais's 1959 film Hiroshima, Mon Amour. Seconds later, the film displays footage of a government building that stood at the epicenter of the Hiroshima nuclear catastrophe, the ravaged husk of which has been left standing, memorialized as the A-Bomb Dome. It was this structure that Krzysztof Wodiczko chose as the site for his Hiroshima Projection, 1999, a work commissioned by the Japanese city and documented in this exhibition.