"A new video installation by Diana Thater will fill the interior of Hauser & Wirth’s Piccadilly gallery with images of the post-nuclear landscape of Chernobyl. For this work, Thater spent time in the ‘Zone of Alienation’ which surrounds the site of the nuclear disaster, filming the eroded architecture and wildlife of the one-hundred mile wide radioactive territory. The animals she films have managed to survive amid the devastation of the only existing post-human landscape, demonstrating a wilderness of man’s making. The installation focuses on the rare and endangered Przewalski’s Horse. Once facing certain extinction in its native habitat in central Asia, this sub-species of the wild horse now roams freely in the ‘Zone of Alienation’."
Bauserwirth (Video)
LA Times: David Zwirner opens post-Sandy with Diana Thater's 'Chernobyl' video
YouTube: Diana Thater, Chernobyl, 2010
Hauserwirth: Diana Thater Chernobyl (Video)
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