Fedor Hiroshige's solo project opens at the Freud's Dream Museum

The exhibition 'The Adventures of Seven Eyes' will be on view from February 11 to March 27

In this new project Fedor Hiroshige combines psychoanalysis with Japanese manga and Tibetan mantras, immersing viewers into a mystical world of surreality. The central image of the graphic novel is Seven Eyes, a mysterious girl with blue hair and seven eyes, reminiscent either of a Japanese manga character or one from Hoffmann's fairy tales. She tries to find her way through the denseness of a gloomy forest whose inhabitants endlessly repeat the Tibetan mantra of compassion ‘om mani padme hum’.

 

The exhibition is a site-specific intervention in the Freud’s Dream Museum, whose exposition space is constructed in a way that one could easily extend it to continue the visual series. This is exactly what Fedor Hiroshige's art works do, where the main character Seven Eyes emerges from the dark forest and gets inside the unconscious, exploring the origins of psychoanalysis in a dialogue with the ‘Freudian habitat’. She wanders through spaces filled with mirrors, doppelgangers, mushrooms and sphinxes, where all paradoxically shifts and moves toward instability. 

 

‘Seven-eyes is a very typical conceptual character for Hiroshige’, says curator and philosopher Natalia Shapkin. — Like many other characters and elements of Fedor's work, it provokes the imagination, but the associative series here is rather misleading. It is not easy to find a plot in her stories; Seven Eyes acts according to the circumstances. Her planning horizon is confined within the confines of a single sheet of paper. She embodies the gaze in all its obscenity and voraciousness.’

 

11.02 — 27.03

Admission is  free: Tue, Sat, Sun 12:00 pm — 5:00 pm

Address: Saint-Petersburg, Bolshoy Avenue P.S.,18A

February 7, 2023
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