Simon Fujiwara
Simon Fujiwara
b. 1982 in London, England, UK; based in Berlin
Work in exhibition
King Kong Komplex, 2015
Mixed media installation with video
Video: 20 min. 30 sec.
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BA in Architecture, University of Cambridge, 2005. Studied Fine Art under Simon Starling at the Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Frankfurt. Simon Fujiwara won the Cartier Award at Frieze Art Fair in 2010. In 2012, Tate St. Ives presented a major survey exhibition of his work. Fujiwara is especially known for installations with rich narratives based on his personal autobiography and his family’s history, indistinguishably blurring the lines between meticulously researched fact and fiction. By taking on the form of artworks, his personal narratives become loosely connected with the narratives of countless other individuals, and gradually transform as they reach out beyond the artist himself.
At Parasophia: Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture 2015, Fujiwara presents King Kong Komplex, an installation composed of a series of new and existing works, including elements from Welcome to the Imperial Bar. The Year is 1968, the Time is 8 O’clock, the Drink is Mount Fuji. Please Enjoy Because Soon This Will All Be Gone… (2013), an installation composed of reproduced fragments of the Frank Lloyd Wright building of the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, where Fujiwara’s parents first met before its demolition in 1968, and the video portion of Studio Pietà (King Kong Komplex) (2013). The installation as a whole will present a more universal “index” of the themes of identity and sexuality.
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Simon Fujiwara, King Kong Komplex, 2015. Installation view at Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art for Parasophia: Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture 2015. Elements from Simon Fujiwara’s works in the collections of Dazaifu-Tenmangu and Ishikawa Collection (Okayama). Photo by Norimasa Kawata
