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Images of Identity

owadays, most of us watch the world change through a screen. This was the case for multimedia artist Simon Fujiwara, who observed the torrent of images on social media as the pandemic and social movements, such as Black Lives Matter, revealed societal fractures. Taking a closer look at collective and personal reckonings with notions of identity that were occurring around him, and the mediation of these issues, particularly through social media, he began a new body of work that revolves

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