Es Devlin, I Saw The World End still, Piccadilly Circus London Japanese Bombings Anniversary
I Saw The World End Exhibition
6 August 2020
I Saw The World End Exhibition in London
New digital artwork commissioned by Imperial War Museums from Es Devlin and Machiko Weston is released to commemorate 75 years since the dropping of the atomic bomb.
image © Es Devlin & Machiko Weston, Still from I Saw the World End, 2020:

75 years to the day since the dropping of the atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima by allied forces during the Second World War, a new digital artwork from contemporary artist Es Devlin, working in collaboration with her long-term studio colleague Machiko Weston, was released this morning.
The artwork has been specially commissioned by Imperial War Museums (IWM) to mark the 75th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the final days of the Second World War. image © Es Devlin & Machiko Weston, Still from I Saw the World End, 2020:

I Saw The World End responds to the moment the nature and consequences of war changed forever. The artwork takes the form of an illuminated ?collective reading?, the text for which has been collated by Devlin and Weston from a range of sources in Japanese and English, exploring both perspectives on the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. These momentous events in August 1945 contributed to bringing the Second World War, the most devastating conflict in mo...