19/11/2026, 19:00
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Book signing for the catalogue of the exhibition The Hamster Becomes The Problem with David Sims
On Thursday, 19 November at 7 pm, two days before the MOP Foundation’s new exhibition opens to the public, photographer David Sims, the featured artist in the exhibition, will sign copies of the catalogue at the MOP Center bookshop.
Attendance at this event is limited to 50 people. Free tickets (maximum one per person) will be available one week before the signing (Thursday 12 November) from 11 am.
To streamline the signing process, booking a place requires the advance purchase of the catalogue, priced at €65, which will be handed to each attendee shortly before the signing takes place. The volume, published by The MOP Books, has been designed by the renowned studio M/M Paris.
The signing will be preceded by an exclusive preview guided tour of David Sims: The Hamster Becomes The Problem, led by the MOP Foundation’s team of guides.
About The Hamster Becomes The Problem
On 21 November, the MOP Foundation will open to the public its major exhibition for the 2026/2027 season: The Hamster Becomes The Problem, by David Sims, one of today’s most influential visual storytellers. The exhibition will be on view until 1 May 2027.
Across editorial, advertising and personal contexts, David Sims, one of the most prolific fashion photographers of his generation, has continually challenged the conventions of the medium. In the late 1990s, as his creative career was beginning to take off, he grasped the profound implications of the imminent arrival of the digital age. It is at this decisive moment —when he set the intentions that would play out over the next 30 years of image-making— that the exhibition begins its journey.
The Hamster Becomes The Problem is a personal invitation from David Sims to join him on an exploration of his archive —the stories he’s created and the characters that are their protagonists— and to join the dots across a body of work that is key to contemporary culture.
Moving between fashion and documentary, intimacy and performance, rebellion and tenderness, the exhibition reveals an artist continually attuned to changing ideas of identity, beauty and representation, who instinctively understands his role as an image maker finely attuned to the sensibilities of his audience. Rather than presenting a chronological survey, The Hamster Becomes The Problem invites us into a series of interconnected environments that each reflects a vital aspect of Sims' visual universe.