Thursday 16 January 18:30 - 21:30

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Teiji Hayama I FAME I Private View I 16th January

Performing & Visual Arts

We welcome Teiji Hayama to Unit London for his first solo show at the gallery. FAME is here in all its twisted, grey-scale glory, forcing us to meditate on what it means to interact with the notion of celebrity in a digital age.

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Teiji Hayama has been fixated on Munroe for some time. Hayama finds the process by which a celebrity becomes stratospherically famous extremely interesting. It appears to be a mixture of hard work and meticulous social maintenance, something that was also adopted by the likes of Elvis Presley and David Bowie. The majority of Hayamaโ€™s figures have been plucked from the silver screen, they depict the elongated, amorphous figures of some of Americaโ€™s most iconic stars. The detachment in their gaze belies a kind of purgatorial exhaustion, as if continuing to exist in the digital, retweeted realm after death is a considerably taxing experience.

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However, FAME is not just about celebrity, itโ€™s about how we all interact with fame and what fame is in a contemporary setting. With the emergence of wide scale social media interaction, the prophetic Warhol adage that โ€œin the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutesโ€ looks increasingly apt. Hayamaโ€™s workis about the exhaustion felt by us all as we carefully curate our digital personas, waiting for our brief twirl on the spotlit dancefloor of FAME.

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