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Finn Theuws

19 June - 24 July 2022

The exhibited works speculate on hegemonic behaviors and social toxicity and its accompanying aftermaths within interpersonal relationships.

The focus ofTake Two Leeches And Count Your Hickeys In The Morninglies within the contrast between a seemingly positive character versus its actual negative nature. The leeches represents the ‘other’, appearing to posses medicinal and kindhearted intentions, yet truly being parasitic and toxic. Reflecting on the associated consequences of being intimate with such another.

Whereas the cut off aloe vera leaves used forPretty Hurts (let me put the water in the bowl for your wounds, babe), having healing and pure properties, present the ‘self’ as something ‘natural’ which is altered and excessively personified by the artificiality of the piercings; zooming in on the urge to enhance oneself for and to be acknowledged by a significant other.

As the cut off leaves, separated from it’s body, sit in glass vessels filled with water; the juices that drip out of the leaves give the water a blood-like color corresponding with a cut off the human body; a part that will never be whole or the same again.

Pictures by Lina Van Hulle

Thursday-Saturday
13:00-18:00
Or on appointment

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