MENS & PALMA
Souvenirs of the modern world
What constitutes an identity? What defines Dutch culture today. Is it unambiguous, is it harmonious, is it a shared experience? Not to Mens & Palma.In the collection New Holland they capture a split Zeitgeist. The tensions between extravagance and system control, festival madness and individualism. Sex, drugs and surveillance cameras. They observe and show contradictions in subject and visual language, but also in choice of materials.
'NEW
HOLLAND
TILE PANEL'
A new Dutch tile panel of 40 handmade tiles in which various contemporary themes come together.
'HISTORY REVISED'
TILE PANEL
A new Dutch tile panel of 18
handmade tiles in which old Dutch heroes becomes a threat for modern society.
'X-PORT'
The Netherlands: land of windmills, cheese, flower bulbs and millions of kilos of synthetic drugs.
'GARBAGE GULL'
STATUE
Massive Seagull with McDonald's fries bucket standing on a wooden bollard.
'CLOCKS & CLOUDS'
TILE PANEL
A new Dutch tile panel of 40 handmade tiles in which various contemporary themes come together.
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