Yoko Ono and her exhibit "Uncursed." Photo Credit: Kishin Shinoyama.
The bombing of Hiroshima was tragic for its land and all its creatures, casting a great shadow for generations to come. Yoko Ono’s Uncursed at the Galerie Lelong transports the viewer to the painful past of Hiroshima. The entrance is a glass door, enabling Yoko’s main medium – freestanding doors – to be immediately seen. However, upon entrance is a wall, perpendicular to the door, with three peepholes. The peepholes were a limitation and the wall a barricade. The quarantined room was dimly lit and covered with rubble and ash. Transparent spoon-head bodies inhabited the space, and like the viewers, we’re distant and separate. [click to continue….]
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