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    The Elephant’s Foot

    Artist Feature of Edward Nurton

    What hasn’t happened, but could.

    The invisible and yet incapacitating.

    The fear of radiation has long fueled the imagination, driving the need for stories of redress and warning.

    Nausea. Headache. Vomiting. Incapacitation.

    What happens to a body once it's exposed to radiation?

    The fear of radiation has long shaped the collective imagination, provoking stories of warning, speculation, and redress. Radiation cannot be seen, touched, or smelled, yet its effects are immediate and devastating: nausea, headache, vomiting, collapse. “The Elephant’s Foot “is a fictional project grounded in the realities of nuclear accidents that have occurred over recent decades. Set across uncertain locations and times, the narrative begins in a small town on the banks of a contaminated river and unfolds through the slow violence of radioactive exposure. The project traces its impact not only on individual bodies, but on communities, ecosystems, and shared memory, where the natural and social worlds become inseparably altered. The images are the result of deep immersion in the study of real-life radiation disasters. While fictional in form, the project remains anchored in rigorous research. This speculative framework allows me to move freely through space and time, questioning how such events unfold and why they are so often surrounded by secrecy, paranoia, and systematic cover-ups.

    Presented as a dystopian sci-fi script, the work blurs the boundary between fact and fiction. Though the story feels imagined, it remains wholly faithful to historical events. Every detail carries a reference: a date, a place, a symptom, a wound. By interrogating these fragments, the viewer uncovers a narrative that is not about what might happen in the future, but about what has already happened and continues to reverberate, invisibly, through bodies and landscapes alike.

    The project was developed between 2022-24 under the curation of Francesco Rombaldi (Curator & Editor-in-Chief at Yogurt Magazine & the Paper Room), and will be published as a photobook this year.

    Edward Nurton is part of »Guest Room: Charmaine Toh & Philippe Pirotte«.

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    Edward Nurton

    Edward Nurton is an author who works with the photographic medium. His work is an exploratory journey that revolves around the motifs of nostalgic longing for the past and anticipation of the unknown future. Nurton’s photography is both real and unreal: reflected in mundane objects and experiences, it evokes the eternal and existential, through its attention to detail. Its unreal-ness is formed by its ephemerality, a dream-like journey into the unconscious, while its realism is reflected through the use of rough archive images. Revolving around the themes of chimeric heritage, memories, and identity, Edward’s work approaches subjectivity both as the main theme and as a transformative process that connects the artist and the audience.