Lili Reynaud-Dewar: Teeth, Gums, Machines, Future, Society

Vleeshal is proud to present Lili Reynaud Dewar’s ‘Teeth, Gums, Machines, Future, Society’ (TGMFS). After Hamburg and Bolzano, this film, performance and exhibition now travels to Middelburg, where it takes on a new form – in response to the late-Gothic architecture of Vleeshal Markt and in dialogue with Middelburg’s history of colonialism and slave trading.

TGMFS has been programmed at Vleeshal Markt from June 24 onwards to coincide with the 8th Middelburg Decolonial Summer School, organized by the University College Roosevelt (UCR) from June 27 till July 13. This year’s Summer School will take place in Vleeshal Markt (a former meat market back in the days when the building was still the town hall). It will ‘explore decolonial horizons of living in harmony and conviviality. To do so it is necessary to unlearn dominant structures of knowledge and assumptions taken for granted about life, politics, nature, race and sexuality. The 2017 Summer School will be an exercise in shifting the geographies of knowing, sensing and believing.’

‘Shifting the geographies of knowing, sensing and believing’ could be a description of Lili Reynaud Dewar’s art practice. In her work, Reynaud Dewar explores the sexual, racial and political conditioning and stereotypes that influence our cultural identity. She deliberately breaks with conventions and traditions in order to explore them and to create a space for thought in which the viewers can and must form their own opinions.