Welcome to Freddy Houndekindo’s Graduation Exhibition at Galleri Mejan, the Royal Institute of Art’s student gallery.
Freddy Houndekindo
Men/ding
Exhibition: 14/3–22/3
Vernissage: Friday 13/3 17.00–20.00*
Opening Hours: Tuesday–Saturday 12.00–18.00
Sunday 12.00–19.00
Durational performance-installation
Everyday:
12.15–14.00, 15.00–16.30
*Friday 13/3 17.00–19.30
Please note:
No performance on Friday 20/3: Public examination.
Men/ding is durational installation performance, rooted in notions of physical and emotional labor. Sport acts as a container and wrestling/grappling as a vehicle for an embodied ethic of care and proximity.
Departing from the belief that “men are made” and must perform to realize themselves, I repurposed this ritual into a training camp. A situation where care and physical proximity are exercised. Violence and intimacy negotiated.
“Tokens of manhood stand still, witness. Time as presence but nevertheless distant. Suspended between nostalgia and gravity.”
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