(Chicago, Illinois, 1945 - October 27, 2017)
From the series "Nuclear Enchantment"
1990
Ilfocolor print
20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61.0 cm)
Collection of the Akron Art Museum
Gift of George Stephanopoulos
2008.145
This nuclear reactor at the University of New Mexico is used for teaching. Nagatani surrounds it with Transformers. (Toys based on characters from Marvel Comics, these alien robots can disguise themselves by transforming into everyday machinery.) The robots appear to be starting an uprising. All the humans have fled. Mousetraps are commonly used in physics classes to demonstrate a nuclear chain reaction.