Spotlight: Simon Fujiwara

For our Spotlight this month we present Simon Fujiwara's Who’s Childhood?, 2021

The sculptural video installation Who’s Childhood projects an animation depicting a revisionist history of Who's childhood. Housed in a cartoonish sculptural projector, the home-movie style animation parodies tropes of childhood nostalgia and authenticity. The association with home movies is reinforced by the animation's soundtrack featuring the low hum of a rattling film projector.

Simon Fujiwara’s acclaimed project Who the Bær was developed during the lockdown in the spring of 2020 and is now the centre of a major exhibition at Fondazione Prada, Milan, and Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam, on the occassion of which Esther Schipper and Dvir Gallery are pleased to present parallel Online Viewing Rooms.

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