Projection Mapping Show Lauds Nihon Hidankyo, Others in Stockholm

Stockholm, Dec. 9 (Jiji Press)–A projection mapping show celebrating past Nobel Peace Prize winners, including Japan’s Nihon Hidankyo, is being presented at Stockholm City Hall, where a banquet will be held following the Nobel Prize award ceremony on Wednesday. The roughly eight-minute artwork includes a section in which the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima, which survived the atomic bombing of the western Japan city in 1945, is displayed on the outer wall of the city hall’s tower, followed by paper cranes flying from left to right. Nihon Hidankyo, formally called the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, was given the peace prize last year. The light show was created by French digital artist Yann Nguema, 52, who has worked on projection mapping projects at Tokyo’s metropolitan government building and Odawara Castle in Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo. Nguema pointed out that there are moves toward nuclear weapons deployment in Europe following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and said he felt it was important to create a work showing the effects and damage caused by nuclear weapons. He expressed his desire to provide aesthetic expressions that touch the hearts of viewers and prompt reflection. Nguema’s projection mapping show is part of the Nobel Week series of events linked to the Nobel Prize ceremony in the Swedish capital, and about 20 artworks using light are on display. One such work is inspired by the late Japanese writer Yasunari Kawabata, who received the 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature. END [Copyright The Jiji Press, Ltd.]