[Exhibition Review] Hiromi Tsuchida: "Hiroshima Collection - Summer, 1945" (June 28 - September 7, 2025 | The Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Kosetsu)
The exhibition "Hiroshima Collection - Summer, 1945," held at The Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Kosetsu in Osaka, features photographs taken by Hiromi Tsuchida over more than 40 years since 1982. The subjects are the clothing and daily items of atomic bomb victims held in the collection of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. All of these photographs are shot against a white background as "objective records that emphasize the semiotic nature" of the objects themselves. As a result, we who face these photographs are once again confronted directly with their detailed visual information, stripped of any extraneous interpretation. The impact of this is profound. I was able to feel once again the overwhelming intensity inherent in images that are accurately and vividly recorded and depicted through photography. Another important aspect is that detailed textual information regarding each item is provided for every single photograph. Reading the text that clearly describes whose belongings the clothes, watches, and lunch boxes were, and the condition in which they were found, makes these otherwise silent artifacts feel as though they are opening their mouths and speaking to us. By carefully combining photographs and words, the power of "narrative" was maximized.
Reviewer: Kotaro Iizawa
Hiromi Tsuchida: "Hiroshima Collection - Summer, 1945"
Dates: June 28 (Sat) - September 7 (Sun), 2025
Venue: The Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Kosetsu
Related Link: https://www.kosetsu-museum.or.jp/nakanoshima/exhibition/hiromi-tsuchida/
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