“A Cruel Wind Blows” is a documentary that delves into a lesser-known aspect of Soviet history, shedding light on the … More
Category: Art
Unraveling the Human Narrative in ‘The Bomb’ (2016)
In a cinematic landscape cluttered with didactic documentaries and verbose visual essays on atomic history, “The Bomb” emerges as a … More
A Revisitation of ‘The Atomic Café’ (1982)
In the landscape of documentary filmmaking, few works resonate with the eerie timbre of contemporary relevance as poignantly as “The … More
The Twilight Zone’s Tackling of Atomic Age Anxieties
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, as the Cold War escalated, America found itself grappling with the existential dread … More
The film Oppenheimer, seen through my eyes
“Oppenheimer,” a film directed by Christopher Nolan, is an enthralling biographical film that chronicles the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, … More
nevada-semipalatinsk I-IX, 2023, on view at the US embassy in Astana, Kazakhstan, until 2025
The Risograph prints incorporate my drawing and fragments of images of the struggle to close the Soviet Semipalatinsk testing site in Kazakhstan. … More
radiophobia, 2023
A work informed by the human fear of radiation, in spite of it being an all-pervasive natural phenomenon. Mixed media … More
nuclear defense waste, 2023
A work inspired by the deleteriously entangled relationship between defense and energy applications of atomic forces in the sensationalist press … More
cherenkov radiation, 2023
A video work inspired by Cherenkov radiation, a form of energy that we can perceive as a blue glow emitted … More
456, 2023, on view at the US embassy in Astana, Kazakhstan until 2025
The number 456 refers to the number of nuclear weapons tested at the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site in Kazakhstan between … More
Ángel Rafael Vázquez-Concepción 