HANA HOOGEDEURE

Ghost Lips Sink Ships

Shame on you, blabbermouth! You might be onto something. 

Two ghosts kiss to avoid careless talk in general. 

Ghost Lips Sink Ships is an exhibition that takes inspiration from the concepts of ‘dead weight’ and the positive disruption of ‘careless talk’ leading to rebellion and mutiny!

A dead weight is a numb non-thing, carried by its owner, idle and ineffective, having no impact beyond the private world of those who they haunt. Guilt, reluctance and resentment press down on the shoulders as dead weights. But why the need for productivity in the first place? It feels heavier but weighs the same.

Loose Lips speak honest talk that could in certain companion’ships’ raise discomfort and lead to distraction from production or inspire a change of view. The anxiety of sinking these ships installs fear of spoiling morale (rocking the boat) by spreading truths. Maybe you’d be better off kissing a ghost.  

This exhibition explores the idea of interruption as a source of inspiration, that can lead to transformation. Within it, the stylistic tropes of consumer culture are paired with visual codes of safety and security to relate the ways in which we comply to this state of suspended animation, gearing towards a safe crash.