Image: Simon Fujiwara at ARKEN Museum of Modern Art

Simon Fujiwara, Joanne, 2016/2018 (detail), three free-standing aluminium-clad structures: one with in-built LED monitors screening video (duration 12:06 min) and digital print, two lightboxes with digital prints on foil. Dimensions variable. Commissioned by FVU, The Photographers’ Gallery and Ishikawa Foundation. Supported by Arts Council England. Exhibition view: Joanne, Galerie Wedding - Raum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin, 2018
Photo © Andrea Rossetti

Exhibitions
August 30, 2019

Simon Fujiwara at ARKEN Museum of Modern Art

ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj

From August 31 Simon Fujiwara's Joanne is on view for the first time in Denmark at ARKEN Museum of Modern Art.

 

Presented as film and image environment, Joanne depicts the many faces of Joanne Salley, Simon Fujiwara’s former secondary school teacher. Winner of the 1998 Miss Northern Ireland beauty pageant, artist, teacher and champion boxer, Joanne Salley had a formative influence on Fujiwara as a scholarship student at the prestigious Harrow School for boys in Britain. Several years later, she became the victim of a tabloid newspaper scandal after students discovered and circulated topless photographs of her that had been taken privately. The ongoing media campaign that followed destroyed her career and public image. 

 

In 2016, Fujiwara and Salley embarked on the production of a short film that aimed, through the use of advertising and marketing techniques, to restore her image.

 

More information HERE.

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