FATHI David

Anecdotal

France

2015

In our collective psyche, the nuclear age corresponds to the explosion of two atomic bombs : Hiroshima and Nagasaki. However, since 1945, there have been more than 2000 nuclear explosions in the world. Since the end of World War II, the nuclear powers have methodically bombed their own territories. Self-mutilation in the name of self-defense.
This body of work has as a starting point some little known anecdotes about nuclear testing programs. By mixing archive pictures, satellite images, pack shots and photographical road trips, the photographer contextualizes a story, between the hair-rising investigation and the absurd farce.
All that is documented here is true but seems to be a poor fiction. Through this work, David FATHI enlightens us about the world in which we think we are living and the one we have actually built.

About the artist

David FATHI was born in 1985 in Paris. His life is shared between IT and photography. He gets into art thanks to the photographers Kladuj Sluban and Diana Lui. As he has an interest in maths, physics, psychology and astronomy, he deals with these subjects by blurring the lines between documentary and conceptual art.