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From a great love of theatre and performance, Caz Egelie breaks with the traditional form of an exhibition in Inventory of a rented house. By breaking it up into separate acts, like in a theatre performance, Egelie develops a fluid presentation where a shift takes place every month, in combination with a performance programme.

At the heart of Egelie's performative art practice lies their work with archival material on specific places or people The artist finds information in the archives that they then use to tell new stories.

Before POST moved into the Arnhem building on Driekoningenstraat, this former post office functioned as a stage for theatre. This past piques Egelie's interest. What does a building remember? How does the function of a place change over time?

In Inventory of a rented house, Egelie searches for connections between their own body of work and the information found about the history of the Posttheater, which used to occupy the building. Egelie displays the result of this search on a stage on which their installations and sculptures are part of the scenography and where performers function as the actors in a play. 

Caz Egelie (1994, NL)

Caz Egelie creates installations, performances, two-dimensional works and videos. In their multi-disciplinary body of work the visual vocabulary of the works is combined with Caz' conceptual approach, and their appetite for theatre and performativity. By referring to art history and its artists and taking on unusual ways of production and presentation, Caz plays a game with real and fake, fact and fiction, reproduction and 'the artist's signature'. By defying these categorisations, Caz engages in institutional critique from the position of the jester, resulting in what one could call 'institutional jest'.

Caz has shown at, amongst other places, Lustwarande Tilburg, PINK Manchester, CENTRALE Brussels, Palais de Tokyo Paris, Centraal Museum Utrecht, Siao-Long Cultural Park Tainan and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.