Simon Fujiwara Study for My Martyrs I (a Mural), 2020
Mixed media collage and charcoal drawing
71 x 43 x 3 cm
The work is part of the collage series Studies for My Martyrs. Each work in the series pairs a reprinted found photograph with an architectural section drawing of a nave in Notre Dame cathedral in Paris on which the artist has drawn in charcoal. The reproduced photographs date from the end of 1980s and beginning of 1990s when the AIDS pandemic was at a peak in the US and Europe.