my hat and my other hat, 2025
performances and score

“Developed through a two-part residency at PINK, Egelie approaches Stockport’s history of hatmaking as a structure through which questions of identity, performance, and authorship are rehearsed. The installation transforms the gallery into a medieval-inspired tavern, whilst evoking a costume rental shop, storage room, or theatrical stage. Here, the boundaries between industrial production and craft, performer and spectator, self and character remain unsettled. Underlying it all is the hat’s oldest social function: its power to conceal as much as it signals, allowing a person to arrive somewhere unread, or to arrive as someone else entirely. “

performed by Nathan Taylor, Hattie Thomas, Luca Sutton and Kaoruko Takehara
models Ylja Band, Ahmed El Gendy and Rabin Huissen
photography in show by Lisa Wolters
woodwork and metalwork by  Johnny Billinge and Robin Broadley

presented at PINK
photos by James Measom