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On View> Manhattan's David Zwirner Gallery Presents Diana Thater's Video Installation, Chernobyl

On View> Manhattan's David Zwirner Gallery Presents Diana Thater's Video Installation, Chernobyl

Chernobyl
David Zwirner Gallery
519 West 19th Street
New York City
Through December 22

Diana Thater’s video installation, Chernobyl, captures the effects manmade disasters have on the natural environment. Situating her work on the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear explosion in the Ukraine, which left a no-man’s land with the sudden evacuation of over 100,000 people, Thater highlights the possibilities nature has to rebuild itself when the ruins of industrial infrastructure are left to decay. She focuses on Prypiat, a city that was built to house nuclear plant workers, and the city’s wildlife, specifically the Przewlski’s Horse species that were released post-disaster and left free from human contact. Her work, both beautiful and startling, forces us to consider how we perceive images and their potential to dictate how we see our world.


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