AFTERIMAGE REQUIEM

Afterimage Requiem is a large-scale visual and sound installation by Kei Ito and Andrew Paul Keiper that probes the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and their intertwined family histories. It was exhibited at the Baltimore Memorial in January, 2018.

In 2016, Ito and Keiper received the Rubys Artist Project Grant through the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance to create Afterimage Requiem. The Rubys were conceived and initiated with start-up funding from the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation and are a program of the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance. Further support for this project came from Full Circle Fine Art Services.

In 2019 Afterimage Requiem formed the centerpiece of Andrew and Kei’s duo show at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Archives Aflame, curated by Wendy Earle. More recently, it was featured in a smaller form as part of the apexart exhibition Elongated Shadows in New York City (curated by Liz Faust), and in the Ethan Cohen KuBe group exhibition Darkest Before Dawn: Art in a Time of Uncertainty (curated by Raul Zamudio and Ethan Cohen), both in 2020.

For further documentation of this project, please visit www.afterimagerequiem.com.