installation > Am I selling myself? (That’s also a title, not a question, but also a question, I guess)

application 1
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2023
application 2
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2022
application 3
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2023
application 4
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2023
application 5
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2023
application 6
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2023
application 7
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2023
application 8
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2023
artist CV
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2023
artist statement
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2023
proposal
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2023
portfolio
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2023
curator deliberations
audio recording
2023

This installation developed out of an open call at the KL8 gallery in Brussels and shows me playing with the ways that institutional language and art-world expectations try to channel the ways you can talk about yourself and therefor construct your own identity. I try to be playful and insecure within application documents that are supposed to be places where you appear confident and put your best foot forward. Listen to the audio—-taken from the meeting two of the curators had to determine whether to include my work in the show--to hear how this self-presentation was interpreted and eventually accepted in the context of their exhibition about how value is produced in the art world.