SHANA DE VILLIERS—I AM FRANKIE, AND YOU STILL LOVE ME.
Shana de Villiers invites you to enter the bedroom of Frankie, a shapeshifting creature-character that some would call: monster. Frankie is both fragment and whole; you and me. Through this intimate and theatrical installation, Shana explores queer post-colonial identity and shame. Despite the stratification of being, shame is a thing we all carry.
With a collage-like working method, Shana draws on their monster archive: an ongoing collection of clippings, images and internet memes. It ranges between creatures from Hieronymus Bosch’s paintings, a teletubby with an aged face, a female bodybuilder or mutated sea creatures. These images form the basis for patchworks, sculptures, wearable objects and performances, in which they unravel and question normative structures. Like a seamstress, they transform found textiles, images and text fragments, in which the arbitrary criteria of what is classified as normal or monstrous are examined.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Shana de Villiers (b. 2000, Sint Maarten) is a South African artist and seamstress of scraps. They graduated from The Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, with a BA in Fine Art, supported by several scholarships and working as a cobbler. Their practice drifts between the performative, visual, and literary, exploring themes such as queer post-coloniality and the monstrous. Through the borrowing and transformation of found images, texts, and textiles, Shana cobbles craft, critical theory, and internet-age mythologies into wearable works, sculptures, texts, performances, and theatrical installations.
OPENING during HOOGTIJ
23 May, 19:00—23:00 h
OPENING HOURS
Saturdays and Sundays
23 May—15 June, 11:00—17:00 h
WORKSHOP MONSTER MY SLIPPERS
31 May, 14:00—16:00 h
ON APPOINTMENT
for visits outside opening hours mail to
joost@daslebenamhaverkamp.com
LOCATION
Stille Veerkade 19, The Hague
free entrance and wheelchair accessible
Supported by Creative Industries Fund NL, Stroom Den Haag and Gemeente Den Haag.