Renowned Kazakhstani artist Karipbek Kuyukov put up harrowing and intimate portraits of victims of nuclear radiation at the Kazakhstan Pavilion at the Expo 2020 Dubai.
It is difficult not to get deeply affected by his art as handless Kuyukov showed one of the darkest chapters of Kazakhstan’s history.
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The artist’s work spoke about the history of nuclear technology and Kazakhstan as well as the future of the nuclear uncertainty that “we’re headed towards.”
Thousands of visitors to the Kazakhstan Pavilion were able to see the experiences of Kuyukov and many other Kazakhstanis through his art.
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The artist was born without hands in a small Kazakh village, located only 100 kilometers away from the main nuclear testing base in the Soviet Union known as the Semipalatinsk Polygon.
In a period of over 42 years of experiments and more than 450 explosions, Kuyukov witnessed the disastrous consequences that “nuclear testing has for human health and life.” (AW)
