Artist: Philip Hinge
Exhibition title: dwelling
Venue: 427, Riga, Latvia
Date: December 4, 2021 – January 15, 2022
Photography: Līga Spunde / all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and 427, Riga
Windows, closed with broken panes, augment quartered interactions. If you stand close enough sometimes it’s difficult to figure out if you’re looking in or out. The intimate scenes squeeze small dramas into their shallow space. A cat, since expired, is coddled by a spermatozoon ghost. A distraught snowman knocks on a window, desperate to get inside. In another a ghost is stopping in the doorway to take a long glance before finally leaving.
Although linked by proximity, these works span the distance between the pre and post pandemic world. Their reflections invert and distance each felt moment, blurring the timeline of events and instances. Neglect is measured against happiness, indifference against a joke. The spectrum is run ragged, self-populating infinitely in the absence of an audience.
Philip Hinge, dwelling, 2021, exhibition view, 427, Riga
Philip Hinge, dwelling, 2021, exhibition view, 427, Riga
Philip Hinge, dwelling, 2021, exhibition view, 427, Riga
Philip Hinge, dwelling, 2021, exhibition view, 427, Riga
Philip Hinge, dwelling, 2021, exhibition view, 427, Riga
Philip Hinge, dwelling, 2021, exhibition view, 427, Riga
Philip Hinge, dwelling, 2021, exhibition view, 427, Riga
Philip Hinge, dwelling, 2021, exhibition view, 427, Riga
Philip Hinge, dwelling, 2021, exhibition view, 427, Riga
Philip Hinge, dwelling, 2021, exhibition view, 427, Riga
Philip Hinge, dwelling, 2021, exhibition view, 427, Riga
Philip Hinge, dwelling, 2021, exhibition view, 427, Riga
Philip Hinge, dwelling, 2021, exhibition view, 427, Riga
Philip Hinge, dwelling, 2021, exhibition view, 427, Riga
Philip Hinge, dwelling, 2021, exhibition view, 427, Riga
Philip Hinge, dwelling, 2021, exhibition view, 427, Riga
Philip Hinge, dwelling, 2021, exhibition view, 427, Riga
Philip Hinge, dwelling, 2021, exhibition view, 427, Riga
Philip Hinge, dwelling, 2021, exhibition view, 427, Riga
Philip Hinge, dwelling, 2021, exhibition view, 427, Riga
Philip Hinge, dwelling, 2021, exhibition view, 427, Riga
Philip Hinge, dwelling, 2021, exhibition view, 427, Riga
Philip Hinge, dwelling, 2021, exhibition view, 427, Riga
Philip Hinge, dwelling, 2021, exhibition view, 427, Riga
Philip Hinge, dwelling, 2021, exhibition view, 427, Riga
Philip Hinge, dwelling, 2021, exhibition view, 427, Riga
Philip Hinge, can’t we look past, 2020
Philip Hinge, dwelling, 2021, exhibition view, 427, Riga
Philip Hinge, house cat, 2021
Philip Hinge, house cat, 2021
Philip Hinge, I’m fine the way things are, 2021
Philip Hinge, dwelling, 2021, exhibition view, 427, Riga
Philip Hinge, one day, old, 2020
Philip Hinge, where I lived alone, 2021
Philip Hinge, sometimes it’s better than remembered, 2020
Philip Hinge, there’s an apple under my bed, 2021
Philip Hinge, still change nothing, 2021