Worlds Fair Inn

It’s believed that when the first atomic bomb was detonated, the world changed forever. This creation would destroy its creator, Robert Oppenheimer. In television appearances he described himself as “Death. The destroyer of worlds” but he had brought to life a force that would never be imprisoned again. Frankenstein also created a monster that demanded his life, could not be confined, and eventually destroyed him. Another scientist in Chicago, H.H. Holmes, built a factory-hotel to experiment with human life and possibly create one himself. Like Frankenstein’s laboratory and Oppenheimer’s Los Alamos, Holmes’a “Murder Castle” was a place where the nature of existence itself was on the table for experimentation.

In this expedition into the subconscious, COMPANY reflects on the similarities between these three men, their tragic personal lives, failures and genius. Worlds Fair Inn is an impressionist explosion revealing these three minds and the forces that worked on them.