Hadamo

In Laos, bombs are an integral part of the environment and of daily life, remnants of the country's tragic past. From 1963 to 1974, during the Vietnam war, the US army dropped more than two million tons of explosives on its surface, the equivalent of five hundred thousand bombs. After forty years, the lives of the inhabitants are still marked by the radical mutations of the landscape still visible today, making it impossible to forget. Unexploded remnants of the war turn up daily, even in urban centres, creating a dimension of uncertainty and instability that affects the daily routines of the residents: their expressions, gestures, and relationships. The material of the bombs becomes part of daily life, taking on new forms and establishing a challenge in the way of understanding and elaborating the past and the traumas of the conflict, in a process that mixes metal and flesh, through the roots of the most bombed land in the history of man.