Exhibiting in Hiroshima has always represented a kind of quest for me. A desire to create work in this city, whose tragic history has left it forever marked by destruction, but also by an extraordinary capacity to rebuild, to bear witness, to pass things on, and to rise again despite everything.

A profound desire to pay tribute, then. To evoke the memories and the pain of the past. To create connections between the living and the dead. But also to search, at the very heart of what has been broken, for what might still be repaired.

In Hiroshima, memory is omnipresent. It is inscribed in places, in landscapes, but also, perhaps, in the very atmosphere of the city. In that invisible presence that lingers and is passed on, like a collective whisper.

Not to forget, then. To keep telling these stories. To bring memories and histories into dialogue.

And, through art, tirelessly, to care for what has suffered.

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"A Very Last Gesture of Love", consists of a flat comb wrapped in thin leather. Inspired by the image of a parent combing their child’s hair, the comb represents love, while the leather evokes skin injured by the atomic bombing. The work conveys the weight of everyday memories that were taken away.

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"The embrace of sorrows" evokes two bodies coming together and embracing within a single form. The threads that run through and extend beyond the forms resemble tears, while also conveying the long process of healing, with its fragile and persistent paths.
Presented in Hiroshima as part of an exhibition opening on October 7, 2026, the work brings together, for the artist, two collective sorrows: one embedded in the memory of Hiroshima, and the other associated with the events of October 7, 2023. The diptych thus emphasizes
the importance of commemorations, anniversaries, and places of remembrance, through which collective wounds continue to travel through time and inhabit the present.
Without conflating or comparing these histories, the work explores the universality of sorrow and the ways in which different forms of grief can resonate with one another. Wounds belonging to different times and histories can echo one another and, in the face of loss, find in an embrace a possible gesture of consolation.

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