Hustelou / Michèle
IMG_9038 Exhibition Monsanto by"Mathieu Asselin"
Difficult to contemplate, isn’t ?
« A photographic investigation Monsanto »by Mathieu Asselin..
This exhibition was close to my heart and I was not disappointed. This exhibition is of a shocking reality and it does not leave anybody indifferent, particularly these captures of fœtal deformities, the result of agent orange of Monsanto…
These captures are immense…when you enter into the exhibition, you can’t see them ! It’s terrible to be faced with such a past …which is always present…
The author has seen the horror and, as the two central displays in his Arles exhibition show, the horror has a face – that of Agent Orange-affected infants preserved in glass containers for science at Tû Dû Obstetrics Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Asselin photographed them as well as living victims of Operation Hades, the original name for the US military operation that sprayed rural areas with Agent Orange during the war – Monsanto was one of the companies that produced the chemical, which was officially used as a defoliant. The most common caption reads: “Multiple genetics disorders and malformations”.
Monsanto's dozens of Superfund sites (large contaminated sites of high priority for the US Environmental Protection Agency) across the United States alone are affecting hundreds of communities and their environment with terrifying health and ecological consequences. Monsanto maintains strong ties with the us-government, and is a bedfellow with many other economical and political power houses around the world. The company has been accused of misinformation campaigns and the persecution of institutions and individuals that dare to disclose their actions. Monsanto is spreading new technologies and products, while scientists, ecological institutions and human rights organizations are putting out alerts for issues like public health, food safety and ecological sustainability issues. Visiting its past and presents, this project aims to picture what Monsanto’s near future could look like.
IMG_9038 Exhibition Monsanto by"Mathieu Asselin"
Difficult to contemplate, isn’t ?
« A photographic investigation Monsanto »by Mathieu Asselin..
This exhibition was close to my heart and I was not disappointed. This exhibition is of a shocking reality and it does not leave anybody indifferent, particularly these captures of fœtal deformities, the result of agent orange of Monsanto…
These captures are immense…when you enter into the exhibition, you can’t see them ! It’s terrible to be faced with such a past …which is always present…
The author has seen the horror and, as the two central displays in his Arles exhibition show, the horror has a face – that of Agent Orange-affected infants preserved in glass containers for science at Tû Dû Obstetrics Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Asselin photographed them as well as living victims of Operation Hades, the original name for the US military operation that sprayed rural areas with Agent Orange during the war – Monsanto was one of the companies that produced the chemical, which was officially used as a defoliant. The most common caption reads: “Multiple genetics disorders and malformations”.
Monsanto's dozens of Superfund sites (large contaminated sites of high priority for the US Environmental Protection Agency) across the United States alone are affecting hundreds of communities and their environment with terrifying health and ecological consequences. Monsanto maintains strong ties with the us-government, and is a bedfellow with many other economical and political power houses around the world. The company has been accused of misinformation campaigns and the persecution of institutions and individuals that dare to disclose their actions. Monsanto is spreading new technologies and products, while scientists, ecological institutions and human rights organizations are putting out alerts for issues like public health, food safety and ecological sustainability issues. Visiting its past and presents, this project aims to picture what Monsanto’s near future could look like.