The Radiant Thing
Résumé
Sophie Houdart and Mélanie Pavy travel to see what remains of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. They are looking, in order to talk about it, for the right shape. They fill notebooks upon notebooks. They observe with the greatest possible care. To talk about the world today, they start with the infinitely small. They are, in their way, like Cornelia Hesse-Honegger, a scientific illustrator at the Zurich Zoological Institute, who paints tiny irradiated animals under a microscope.