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Hope House
Simon Fujiwara, Tel Aviv, 2 September - 21 October 2017

Hope House: Simon Fujiwara

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    Hope House, 2017 Exhibition view Dvir Gallery / Tel Aviv

    Hope House,  2017

    Exhibition view

    Dvir Gallery / Tel Aviv

    For his third exhibition at Dvir Gallery, Simon Fujiwara presents Hope House a new immersive large-scale exhibition centering on a full-scale replica of the Anne Frank House. During a visit to the Anne Frank House Museum in Amsterdam, Fujiwara purchased a 1:60 scale model of the building from the gift store, intended as merchandise for visitors to build themselves. For this exhibition, Fujiwara took the model as source material for a full scale, 1:1 architectural replica of the house constructed within the gallery and split across three floors of the building. Imagined as a ‘building within a building’, Hope House features several of the spaces key to the Anne Frank narrative including the secret annex and attic described in her diary. However in this new context, the house can be experienced as a three dimensional, sculptural object where visitors freely circumnavigate in and around the structure offering a radical new experience of the house. In this regard Hope House is neither a museum nor a simple facsimile of the Anne Frank house but a hybrid experience whose origins as a model/product speak of the increasing synthesis of ideology, politics, philanthropy and capitalism. Residing within the spaces of Hope House visitors encounter numerous sculptures, artifacts, domestic interiors, video works and sound installations that together create a Gesamtkunstwerk as well as a material investigation into the ways hope, positivity, empathy and ‘doing good’ perform under the hyper-capitalist ideology of the 21st century. Typical of Fujiwara’s challenging and expansive practice, Hope House presents a rich, contradictory and sometimes uneasy picture of the most cherished of our human desires: to be good, to believe, to love.

     

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    Hope House,  2017

    Exhibition view

    Dvir Gallery / Tel Aviv

  • WORKS
    • Simon Fujiwara, The Secret Annex, 2018
      Simon Fujiwara, The Secret Annex, 2018
    • Simon Fujiwara, Edelweiss, 1992, 2017
      Simon Fujiwara, Edelweiss, 1992, 2017
    • Simon Fujiwara, Untitled (Extension), 2017
      Simon Fujiwara, Untitled (Extension), 2017
    • Simon Fujiwara, Diary, 2017
      Simon Fujiwara, Diary, 2017
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