ᴛᴏᴏᴛʜʟᴇꜱꜱ is an installation by
@annelieskamen photographed during
@rijksakademie OPEN
Combining sculptural objects and a three-channel audio narrative, ᴛᴏᴏᴛʜʟᴇꜱꜱ tells how a baseball busts a hole through a boy’s grin, breaking open a hometown myth and creating a crack through which a tooth, a manhole cover, a sunken piano, a wad of chewing gum, a pepper-spray bullet, a wooden bat, a pile of sunflower seeds, a reporter’s shoe, a political chant and a provisional government flow. Sports grifters turned nation builders - the farce of a ‘less-lethal’ projectile - spaces made permeable, perforated by performative and political violence. These characters switch places with one another, are melted down and formed again, sadly hit their targets or sadly miss them, dissolve into silt or pile up outside the dugout. A riot, a demonstration, a wrestling match.
@rijksakademie 
