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
