Kei Ito - Recovery to Normal Existence

Halide Project presents Recovery to Normal Existence, a multimedia solo exhibition featuring the work of Kei Ito, a cameraless photographer who examines global traumas through a multitude of times and experiences originating in his grandfather’s survival of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima during WWII. Ito’s work blends the radioactive reality of the past and isolated post-nuclear apocalyptic imagined futures based off of Cold War hysteria that now, after our collective experience of a global pandemic, takes on a new layer of meaning. By abandoning the camera and receding to photography’s origin, Ito’s works capture the invisible danger of radiation and its often ignored and silent presence in our everyday lives. Spanning from methods of possible personal protection to uncertain science and treatments, the fiery cameraless images fill the gallery with questions of health and safety during a nuclear attack and the wasteland left behind them.