MrFijodor "Pillow Theory" Solo Show
Urban Artist

nglish Clumsy hominids, hallucinated Minotaurs, gigantic fish and scared dinosaurs: the imaginary world of MrFijodor’s creatures arises from dreams, takes shape on paper, develops inside the walls of abandoned places and finally becomes a gallery of black and white characters, all realized on canvas and wood. The work of the urban artist MrFijodor, exhibited in occasion of his first solo show in Turin at Square23, encompasses a fictional bestiary, made of dream animals, myths and paradoxes. You will find the yeti, the bigfoot and the leviathan, the biblical figure that Herman Melville embodied in the cachalot and that apparently really existed on earth. You can also find creatures of the past as well as creatures arisen from contemporary urban myths - inhabitants of that dreamlike and fantastic world that haunted people’s dreams for thousands of years. Starting from some notes made on his own dreams and nightmares and inquiries into the archaic mythology, ranging from creepypasta characters to beings related to cryptozoology, MrFijodor shapes grotesque but familiar figures. With the simplicity that distinguishes his style, surreal and spontaneous, the artist gives a face to ancestral fears, to dreams and to the inhabitants of our subconscious. “The Pillow Theory” invites us to reflect on how those topics characterizing ancient myths still take the lead in our everyday life and condition the way we engage with who is different, with the unknown and with the society in general.

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