British artist Simon Fujiwara has opened a major career survey, 'A Whole New World,' at Mudam Luxembourg. The exhibition features a reinterpretation of Picasso's *Guernica* using his cartoon character Who the Baer, alongside works addressing his personal experience with syphilis and a commemorative installation for Japanese gay porn star Koh Masaki. The show is structured as a thematic 'theme park' exploring contemporary issues.
The exhibition matters as a significant institutional recognition of Fujiwara's two-decade, provocatively interdisciplinary practice. It positions his work within major art historical dialogues—from Picasso to Duchamp—while tackling taboo subjects like disease, pornography, and trauma, questioning how identity is constructed in a hyper-referential, media-saturated world.