Simon Fujiwara @ Kunsthaus Bregenz
The building, which is largely a reconstruction containing only a few remains of the original family artifacts, is a magnet for visitors. Fujiwara is responding to the restoration of the spaces by reproducing the building to 1:1 scale at Kunsthaus Bregenz. His source is the kit model available at the Anne Frank House museum shop. From the replica, from the set of copies, a large-scale copy will result, which will be made partially accessible to visitors. This is a continuation of Kunsthaus Bregenz’s distinctive interventions, this time addressing inevitable issues of authenticity, originality, value, history, and replicability. Simon Fujiwara: »The project isn’t a parody of capitalism, it shows capitalism.«
Simon Fujiwara, born in London in 1982, spent his childhood moving between Japan, Europe, and Africa. He studied at Cambridge University and Städelschule in Frankfurt/Main.
Working often in collaboration with others in the telling of supposedly personal stories, Fujiwara’s work explores the concept of the contemporary individual – self-determined, self-narrativised, unique – and presents a highly contingent notion of the self that can only be defined through the participation of others.