Kei Ito is a conceptual photographer working primarily with camera-less image making and installation art. His work addresses issues of deep loss and intergenerational connection. Through his ritualistic process, which explores the materiality and experimental processes of photography, he grapples with his family’s historical connection to nuclear weapons and power. The work serves as an intermediary, a memento of his grandfather—a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and a later anti-nuclear activist—and his own experience in relation to current threats of nuclear disaster.
This ART 158 lecture took place on February 13, 2020, at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts at the University of Utah. Made possible through the generous support of Marva and John Warnock, the Department of Art & Art History, the College of Fine Arts, and Utah Museum of Fine Arts.
