The memory of nuclear violence is shaped by the systems that produce and preserve political truth.

Looking into the lights that illuminate Florence’s Fontana del Nettuno, The Fountain of Neptune, Rome’s Mayor Roberto Gualtieri speaks at the Pantheon on the 77th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and in the context of Putin’s 2022 nuclear threats toward Ukraine.

Amongst the backdrop of myth, history, and contemporary geopolitics, the threat of nuclear warfare is presented as part of a continuum of power driven by rhetoric. The future of human survival come into view, as well as the systems of logic and domination that have brought us to a precarious edge where human presence has become a divine intervention.