M HKA presents the first major retrospective of British artist Anthea Hamilton,
MASH UP (18 Feb - 15 May). In the framework of the CARTA 22 festival and in collaboration with DE SINGEL,
an ongoing performance will take place every Saturday from 19 February onwards in the M HKA. This during the entire duration of the exhibition until Saturday 14 May.
For nearly two decades, Anthea Hamilton has developed a complex practice that spans sculpture, installation and performance. Hamilton dives without restraint into the meandering history of visual and cultural production, using her eye as a both subjective and productive lens through which to view (and recreate) the world. Her installations—which combine unexpected materials, scale and humour—propose an alternative and fragmented reality where gender roles, sexualities, food, domestic life, nature, and the traditions of different cultures, all rescind their status of firmly established clichés and become fluid notions. Hamilton’s practice therefore relies on a strong belief in cohabitation, complexity and, by extension, imagination, positing the artworks’ ontological ambiguity as a means to constantly challenge our perceived realities.