Michael Light

Between 1945 and 1962, the United States carried out 216 nuclear tests in the American desert and in the Pacific. Following an agreement signed with the USSR in 1963, the tests were then conducted underground, away from the public eye. Michael Light shows images rediscovered in a declassified military archive, documenting these experiments. Displayed outdoors along the idyllic shores of Lake Geneva, the 100 SUNS exhibition created a dialogue between the sublime beauty of the surrounding nature and the destructive power of the weapon – a power Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, compared to that of a “thousand suns”.