HOLEWAY
Site-Specific Installation at Avans
Holeway is an installation situated within a corridor of lockers, a space commonly associated with discipline, routine, and bodily regulation. By inserting a series of self-images taken on an iPhone between the locker units, the work tries to disrupt the assumed neutrality of the environment and the structures embedded within it. The installation considers how systems of control shape the body, particularly in relation to queerness, visibility, and the regulation of intimacy within public space.
The photographs depict fragments of my nude body wearing only Nike socks. The face remains absent. The body is cropped, enlarged, or positioned in ways that resist complete visibility, causing certain images to register less as portraits and more as isolated surfaces or abstracted details. Produced using a phone camera and direct flash, the images adopt the visual language of private documentation rather than formal representation: photographs taken alone, within the intimacy of a room, without the expectation of being seen publicly.
The photographs depict fragments of my nude body wearing only Nike socks. The face remains absent. The body is cropped, enlarged, or positioned in ways that resist complete visibility, causing certain images to register less as portraits and more as isolated surfaces or abstracted details. Produced using a phone camera and direct flash, the images adopt the visual language of private documentation rather than formal representation: photographs taken alone, within the intimacy of a room, without the expectation of being seen publicly.
Lighting plays a central role in shaping how the space is perceived. Spotlights directed toward the images cast sharp shadows across the locker surfaces, producing vertical lines and elongated forms that subtly recall ecclesiastical architecture. The corridor begins to oscillate between a site of bodily discipline and one of ritualized attention. The flash embedded within the images and the theatrical lighting of the installation begin to merge, collapsing distinctions between private gesture and public display.
Installed within the locker corridor, that private space becomes displaced into a shared environment without fully revealing itself. The work exists in tension between exposure and concealment, intimacy and regulation, inserting traces of the queer body into a structure designed for order, separation, and control.
Installed within the locker corridor, that private space becomes displaced into a shared environment without fully revealing itself. The work exists in tension between exposure and concealment, intimacy and regulation, inserting traces of the queer body into a structure designed for order, separation, and control.
Holeway, 2025