2018, print on PVC, wooden structure, installation dimensions variable, approximate installation dimensions: H600 x W1,300 x D500 cm, La Boverie, Liège, Belgium, Created on the occasion of the Biennale de l'Image Possible (BIP-2018).
In 2018, Fujiwara participated in the 11th edition of the Biennale de l’Image Possible. As part of the FLUO NOIR exhibition at La Boverie in Liège, Belgium, he created a monumental photographic installation, almost improvised. This expansive assemblage comprised all the printed photographs he had exhibited. Images from previous series, such as human/animal bodies, iconical uniforms, and camera details, were disassembled and merged with newly created prints, including fleshy close-ups of a porn star captured during a live sex show in Berlin Venus. These elements were reworked and transformed into a new context, challenging the brutal theatricality inherent in a society that idolizes the gaze.
[Introduction by Anne-Françoise Lesuisse]
Taking responsibility for, and using up to its limits, the liberty which had neither a model nor a master has presented him with, Satoshi Fujiwara offers saturated photography, over-edited, extreme in its form and its subject matter. The very powerful aesthetic statements, which can leave no-one unmoved, are coupled with a political statement about a society that worships the gaze. Satoshi Fujiwara observes this and above all reveals its authoritarianism with photographic scenes that pertain to a brutal theatricality. Using his photographs the way a sculptor uses matter, for BIP2108 he will produce a monumental photographic statue, whose pedestal is on the border of a stage and a boxing ring, in a space between which speaks of the fascinating violence of the spectacular.(Ph. ©BIP2018, Ph. Guilherme Gerais)