Exhibition
Simon Fujiwara

The Humanizer

Fri, 20.05.2016 -
Sun, 28.08.2016
Irish Museum of Modern Art

Sir Roger Casement is a man born in the wrong age. An upstanding Irish nationalist and British civil servant, handsome, adored and fearless, he dedicated his life to fighting for the freedom of slaves. Yet his undoing comes at his own hands through his sexual proclivity towards the very slave men he fought to free and a series of tragic decisions that push Casement towards the wrong side of history.

Berlin based, British/Japanese artist Simon Fujiwara’s new project, The Humanizer, places Casement’s extraordinary biography at the core of an imagined new Hollywood biopic, taking the life of the compelling yet baffling figure of Roger Casement through the conventions of the Hollywood narrative machine in order to expose our modern day desire for the perfect Hollywood hero in an age where everyone is somebody.

Simon Fujiwara (born London, 1982) lives and works in Berlin. He studied Architecture at Cambridge University, and then Fine Art at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. He has participated in numerous international exhibition and in several recent biennials including the Venice Biennale, 2009; Manifesta 8 and São Paulo Biennial.

Presented by the Irish Museum of Modern Art
Supported by the Goethe-Institut Irland