Simon Fujiwara Who's Fragmented Self? (Blue), 2025

Simon Fujiwara's painting Who's Fragmented Self? (Blue) belongs to the artist's series of works recreating iconic artworks by famous, historically significant artists through the perspective of his original cartoon figure Who the Bær.

The work is executed in pastel, charcoal and acrylic, framed in a distinct colored frame. Fujiwara is drawing on Picasso’s series of cubist portraits created between the late 1930s and 1945, depicting seated women.

Picasso’s models and muses are reconstructed into a likeness of Who, featuring for example the figure’s characteristic pink tongue with yellow dripping liquid. While the depicted figure’s female anatomy suggests the presence of a woman, the title of Fujiwara’s work allows us to reassess this first impression, underlining the ability of the artist's Who the Bær to transform outside conventional constraints of identity.