New Lovin / 2024 / Solo performance exhibition / Curated by Dagmar Dirkx / Presented at Kunsthal Extra City, Antwerp (BE)

New Lovin was a performance exhibition that brought together three narratives with the common thread of human desires for dominance and submission. The power relations are explored through a queer reading of a medieval antisemitic symbol, a collection of displaced watermelons, and a plan for a new utopian city in Belgium called New Lovin. In the performance, I activated and revealed the exhibited objects, thus emphasizing the importance of physical presence, ritual and storytelling.

Installation photos: We Document Art, performance photos: Brent Mertens, video: Ila Pittaluga for Enfant Terrible Films, communication: Laetitia Sabiti, production coordination: Zuzanna Rachowska, production intern: Karel Op ’t Eynde, technicians: Fedde Holwerda, Juan Pablo Plazas, text editing: Dagmar Dirkx, Joachim Naudts, Laetitia Sabiti, Jonathan Beaton, graphic design: Ward Heirwegh

Special Thanks to: Sophia Holst, Juan Pablo Plazas, Lila Vennat, Catherine Bailey Gluckman, Mary Szydłowska, MORPHO, Publiek Park, Level Five, Shabbes 24/7, Walter Hattenbach, Caroline Dumalin, Ray Ray Mitrano, Oleg Asoiev, Felix Kalmenson, Shoshana Walfish, Fenya Fischler, Gary Farelly, Julie Weitz, all the people who worked on this exhibition and public program, all the amazing visitors, all the friends and family who have supported me a long the way.

Made possible with support from Mondriaan Fonds.


















































































References and research from: ‘The Jew, the Cathedral, and the Medieval City’ by Nina Rowe, ‘The Song of Songs’, ‘Altercatio Ecclesiae et Synagogae’, ‘Tzama Lecha Nafshi’ version by Rena Branson, Judaism Unbound, Shabbes 24/7, Jewish Currents, Xai How Are You?, The Jewish Diasporist Podcast, Upstream Podcast, Center for Jewish Studies Fordham, ‘Holy Envy’ by Maeera Shreiber, Sliman Mansour, Issa Amro & Adam Broomberg, Vera Tamari, ‘The Hundred Years War on Palestine’ by Rashid Khalidi, ‘Palestinian Art’ by Kamal Boullata, ’The Jewish State’ by Theodor Herzl, L.L. Zamenhof, Chef Ann Kim from Netflix’s ‘Chef’s Table’, and Dean Martin