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Video, colour, sound, 18 min.

f, as in Fukushima (2013). Two years after the catastrophe, Natacha Nisic travels to Fukushima and observes the landscapes, villages and inhabitants who suffered the ravages of the tsunami and of the radiation from the power plant. Through a device made up of a 25-metre tracking shot and vertical mirrors 30 centimetres wide set at different intervals, the artist allows the viewer to see the shot and the reverse shot, the before and the after, at the same time. When the camera passes in front of a mirror, a moving image of the reverse shot travels in a horizontal tracking movement in the opposite direction across the width of the mirror. This constitutes, without trickery, the interplay of one image within another, of one movement within another, of a landscape and its opposite. The device makes it possible to combine the time of movements and of spaces in a single gaze.