by Steve Newton on January 5th, 2021 at 3:00 PM
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The Museum of Anthropology (MOA) at UBC has
announced a group exhibition that will open in time to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the 2011 disaster that saw a horrifying earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown hit Japan.
A Future for Memory: Art and Life After the Great East Japan Earthquake will feature works by eight artists, groups and institutions from Japan, tracing the material and intangible effects of the Great East Japan Earthquake. It runs from February 11 to September 5.
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A Future for Memory is an important opportunity for those of us living in Canada to consider the effects of natural disasters and reflect on how we are all connected globally,” says curator Fuyubi Nakamura in a press release. “The exhibition is derived from my personal experiences in the disaster region. I spent a few months in the Miyagi Prefecture, which suffered the largest number of casualties, and I have returned every year since. I worked particularly closely on rescuing and cleaning photographs found amid the debris, an experience that led me to reconsider the relationship between memory and objects.”