Giles Price - Restricted Residence _alt_Dirk van Kooij to render the everyday landscapes

to render the everyday landscapes of Namie and Iitate surreal and inverted

Entre désir et peur

In the process of making this body of work

flat and desolate

with a short story by Genevieve Hudson

Giles Price - Restricted Residence _alt_Dirk van Kooij to render the everyday landscapesRestricted Residence by Giles Price examines the relocation of Japanese citizens to Namie and Iitate, two towns exposed to extreme radioactivity following the catastrophic leak at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Despite the inconclusive scientific consensus of the long term effects of radiation in the area, in 2017 the Japanese government began to reduce the exclusion zones and heavily financially