[Making of] Unmovement by Niels 'Shoe' Meulman

Video by: Sander Lanen
Music by MAYO

 

Shoe dramatizes the arrogance of capitalism in a neoliberal world where obtaining painting materials is a luxury for many, by driving over expensive cans of paint with a car or carelessly burning freshly painted canvases. This nonchalant attitude is an ironic take on the current socio-economic climate, as much as a thinly veiled critique of today's contemporary art world, often perceived as increasingly elitist. In Shoe's work, the car (a 1992 Buick Park Avenue) is used like a paintbrush, an instrument whose traces create a motif. The car is central to the process and is presented in all its splendor as the obvious source and witness of pictorial signs.