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South African born conceptual artist Adrian Hermanides understands art as a means to expand the limits of subjectivity in order to affect social change. Hermanides is interested in portraying punctured, fluid and mobile states that convey a certain softening of the borders. Sexuality and humor are a recurring theme in his work, as well as deflation and retraction. In Eredep, <\/em>Hermanides shows a blown-glass bubble filled with exhaust fumes. The bubble is attached to the wall by its tip that resembles a penis, leaving the rest of the bubble to look like an enlarged scrotum. In the found object installation Alms for Birds, <\/em>Hermanides displays the meticulously sorted contents of a dead person\u2019s apartment. Lifelong collecting and accumulating become a stand-in for the owner and a projection screen for the life they may have lead, left to the viewer\u2019s scrutiny.<\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" South African born conceptual artist Adrian Hermanides understands art as a means to expand the limits of subjectivity in order to affect social change. Hermanides is interested in portraying punctured, fluid and mobile states that convey a certain softening of the borders. Sexuality and humor are a recurring theme in his work, as well as…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10172],"tags":[63,38,34,13,23,37],"class_list":["post-1518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-berlin","category-film","tag-adrian-hermanides","tag-art","tag-berlin","tag-interview","tag-maxime-ballesteros","tag-studio-visit"],"acf":{"main_category":null,"legacy":"1","exclude_from_ads":null,"hero_title":null,"subtitle":null,"hero":null,"teasers":null,"facebook_image":null,"related_articles":null,"next_article":null,"sleek_card_focus":null,"content":null},"yoast_head":"\n