Louidgi Beltrame’s work is based on documenting modes of human organisation throughout the history of the 20th century. He travels to sites defined by a paradigmatic relation to modernity: Hiroshima, Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia, Chandigarh, Tchernobyl or the mining colony of Gunkanjima, over the sea off Nagasaki. His films - based on the recording of reality and the constitution of an archive - appeal to fiction as a possible way to consider History.

Louidgi Beltrame
Gunkanjima Plans
2010
Vector drawing, pigment printing on Japanese paper Kozo 125 grams, frame raw oak, 43,3 x 17,3 inches.



“Gunkanjima Plans” takes the aesthetics of “blueprint” draw- ings of architect. This drawing represents the superposition of two views on the island: the elevation drawing showing silhou- ette warship and block plan, detailing its contours and shapes of buildings. The drawing functions as a dual plan that would reveal a third.