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You Can Smoke Me

You Can Smoke Me
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when
January 7, 2023 - January 29, 2023
where
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You Can Smoke Me (Feminised Patriarchy’s Pyramid)
Feminizing is a patriarchal

The work is a visualization of the patriarchy dilemma stimulated continually in our social systems. It is a performative installation that contains a feminised weed plant surrounded by drawings of the five stages that Yazan Maksoiud questioned in the power systems influenced by the patriarchal theory in our society. Yazan will install his own feminised tree that was prepared to serve this kind of power agency development in our life. Here, they will be revealing an image of how our bodies were controlled to behave and grow in specific ways that serve these developments of the dominant powers in our social pyramid. On other hand, this work deals with a real plant as a medium of research and work in his art. This dead tree will be constituting a real image of the rushed life circle we all live in this big capitalistic system ruling our world nowadays. How our bodies nature is moulded to behave in these systems? What are these realities we live in?

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Een close-up van blauw-witte geweven stof met een abstract, onregelmatig patroon van lijnen en golven.
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Dweilen met de Kraan Open

Isabela Verhagen

Since the heavy rainfalls flooded the streets of Valencia in 2024, I could not stop thinking about the images of the residents sweeping the muddy streets. Amid the enormous amounts of mud and water, the act of sweeping seemed futile. These pictures conveyed a clear message: people are trying to manage the damaging consequences of climate change. Starting from this image, my project depicts men sweeping the floor while standing in the water, ankle deep. In front of the sweepers, on the floor, is a house and a car swept away by the floods. The tapestries are accompanied by a ceramic fuel nozzle with a knitted oil spill attached, symbolising the fossil fuel companies that accelerate climate change. The installation is created to show the stark contrast between individuals fighting the consequences of climate change, while elsewhere, the oil tap is still running. The title refers to a Dutch saying, literally translated as ‘mopping the floor with the faucet open.

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Wilhelminapark 24A
3581 NE Utrecht