Dries verhoeven biography definition

Artist
Dries Verhoeven

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Persis Bekkering

Exhibition
It’s so easy, they all say. The risk is minimal.

Once you’ve crossed the line, once you’ve broken through the invisible wall that once seemed so impenetrable, thick with thousands of years of encrusted ethics spelling ‘Thou shalt not steal…’ - Persis Bekkering

Is stealing and looting the future?

In the durational performance Everything Must Go, Dries Verhoeven examines shoplifting. The late-capitalist human tries to survive in a system that has lost its luster, without sight of an alternative in the meantime.

Dries verhoeven biography definition

Everything must go, but in favor of what?

In a time when we like to display our good behavior, Verhoeven focuses on the socially undesirable. Because how exemplary are we when we think we are unobserved, for example at the self-checkout?

Verhoeven engaged in conversations with more and less affluent people who occasionally 'forget' to pay, with thieves in detention, and with those who consider theft a