KIN by Monia Ben Hamouda, Michele Gabriele & Andrew Birk at Spiritvessel, Espinavessa

October 5th - December 5th, 2024. Espinavessa, Spain.

Weave a safety net

Throw it in the murky water

       to a shimmery mass of fish

       all going in one direction

Catch some, only a few

Stick together

Slip through everyone’s fingers

Be slippery together

Become a cause and fight for it

Be only in a state of extreme determination

                                        rally

Commit to abstract ambition

Stretch decisions to their ultimate consequences

Find the point of no return and make it comfortable there

Build convictions to break convictions

Walk the line

Use your taste buds to make up rules

       so rigid and so loose

Coerce yourself to live by them

Do all the things you can’t afford to

Sweep and shovel

Refine your spider senses

Embrace radical devotion to incessant speculation

Raise expectation

Absorb margin of error

Be permeable and bulletproof

 resolve, resolve, resolve

Wake up earlier than your enemies

Be ready to lose everything

                at any given moment

Make the thing no one’s asked for 

          and no one knew they needed

Write a riddle and be surprised by the answer

Choose the big pond

Survive in the leftover water at the bottom of the bucket

You’ll know you’ve outdone yourself

                                            yet again

And we shall be forever kindred.

- Sira Pizà

Monia Ben Hamouda. Rain (Blindness, Blossom and Desertification XVIII), 2024. Soil, rain, charcoal, oil on raw cotton. 320 x 220 x 4 cm. Image by Roberto Ruiz. Courtesy of the artist and Spiritvessel.
Monia Ben Hamouda. Rain (Blindness, Blossom and Desertification XVIII), 2024. Soil, rain, charcoal, oil on raw cotton. 320 x 220 x 4 cm. Image by Roberto Ruiz. Courtesy of the artist and Spiritvessel.
Monia Ben Hamouda. Rain (Blindness, Blossom and Desertification XVIII), 2024. Soil, rain, charcoal, oil on raw cotton. 320 x 220 x 4 cm. Image by Roberto Ruiz. Courtesy of the artist and Spiritvessel.
Installation view. Michele Gabriele. Study for the head of a sleeping teenage triton, 2024. Silicone, metal, glass, plastic. 90 x 60 x 50 cm. (Left). Monia Ben Hamouda. Rain (Blindness, Blossom and Desertification XVIII), 2024. Soil, rain, charcoal,
Michele Gabriele. Study for the head of a sleeping teenage triton, 2024. Silicone, metal, glass, plastic. 90 x 60 x 50 cm. Image by Roberto Ruiz. Courtesy of the artist and Spiritvessel.
Michele Gabriele. Study for the head of a sleeping teenage triton, 2024. Silicone, metal, glass, plastic. 90 x 60 x 50 cm. Image by Roberto Ruiz. Courtesy of the artist and Spiritvessel.
Michele Gabriele. Study for the head of a sleeping teenage triton, 2024. Silicone, metal, glass, plastic. 90 x 60 x 50 cm. Image by Roberto Ruiz. Courtesy of the artist and Spiritvessel.
Monia Ben Hamouda. Burial of all meanings II, 2024. Steel, iron, engine, enamel, salt. 160 x 110 x 120 cm. (Top). Michele Gabriele. Study for the head of a sleeping teenage triton, 2024. Silicone, metal, glass, plastic. 90 x 60 x 50 cm. (Bottom). Im
Monia Ben Hamouda. Burial of all meanings II, 2024. Steel, iron, engine, enamel, salt. 160 x 110 x 120 cm. Image by Roberto Ruiz. Courtesy of the artist and Spiritvessel.
Monia Ben Hamouda. Burial of all meanings II, 2024. Steel, iron, engine, enamel, salt. 160 x 110 x 120 cm. Image by Roberto Ruiz. Courtesy of the artist and Spiritvessel.
Andrew Birk. Here, Now, Forever (chainsaw painting 1), 2024. Chainsaw, gasoline, and two-stroke motor oil on landscaping fabric. 400 x 300 cm. (Left). Monia Ben Hamouda. Burial of all meanings II, 2024. Steel, iron, engine, enamel, salt. 160 x 110 x
Andrew Birk. Here, Now, Forever (chainsaw painting 1), 2024. Chainsaw, gasoline, and two-stroke motor oil on landscaping fabric. 400 x 300 cm. (Left). Monia Ben Hamouda. Burial of all meanings II, 2024. Steel, iron, engine, enamel, salt. 160 x 110 x
Andrew Birk. Here, Now, Forever (chainsaw painting 1), 2024. Chainsaw, gasoline, and two-stroke motor oil on landscaping fabric. 400 x 300 cm. Image by Roberto Ruiz. Courtesy of the artist and Spiritvessel.
Andrew Birk. Here, Now, Forever (chainsaw painting 1), 2024. Chainsaw, gasoline, and two-stroke motor oil on landscaping fabric. 400 x 300 cm. Image by Roberto Ruiz. Courtesy of the artist and Spiritvessel.
Andrew Birk. Here, Now, Forever (chainsaw painting 1), 2024. Chainsaw, gasoline, and two-stroke motor oil on landscaping fabric. 400 x 300 cm. Image by Roberto Ruiz. Courtesy of the artist and Spiritvessel.
Andrew Birk. Here, Now, Forever (chainsaw painting 1), 2024. Chainsaw, gasoline, and two-stroke motor oil on landscaping fabric. 400 x 300 cm. Image by Roberto Ruiz. Courtesy of the artist and Spiritvessel.
Andrew Birk. Here, Now, Forever (chainsaw painting 1), 2024. Chainsaw, gasoline, and two-stroke motor oil on landscaping fabric. 400 x 300 cm. Image by Roberto Ruiz. Courtesy of the artist and Spiritvessel.
Michele Gabriele. L’Addio, 2024. Acrylic on canvas in artist’s frame. 91.5 x 81.5 x 6 cm. Image by Roberto Ruiz. Courtesy of the artist and Spiritvessel.
Michele Gabriele. L’Addio, 2024. Acrylic on canvas in artist’s frame. 91.5 x 81.5 x 6 cm. (Left). Monia Ben Hamouda. Burial of all meanings II, 2024. Steel, iron, engine, enamel, salt. 160 x 110 x 120 cm. (Center). Andrew Birk. Here, Now, Forever (c
Michele Gabriele. L’Addio, 2024. Acrylic on canvas in artist’s frame. 91.5 x 81.5 x 6 cm. Image by Roberto Ruiz. Courtesy of the artist and Spiritvessel.
Michele Gabriele. L’Addio, 2024. Acrylic on canvas in artist’s frame. 91.5 x 81.5 x 6 cm. (Left). Andrew Birk. Harmony, 2024. Bonne Maman raspberry jam, crunchy peanut butter, and graphite on canvas. 41 x 33 cm. (Center). Monia Ben Hamouda. Burial o
Andrew Birk. Harmony, 2024. Bonne Maman raspberry jam, crunchy peanut butter, and graphite on canvas. 41 x 33 cm. Image by Roberto Ruiz. Courtesy of the artist and Spiritvessel.
Andrew Birk. Harmony, 2024. Bonne Maman raspberry jam, crunchy peanut butter, and graphite on canvas. 41 x 33 cm. Image by Roberto Ruiz. Courtesy of the artist and Spiritvessel.
Andrew Birk. Harmony, 2024. Bonne Maman raspberry jam, crunchy peanut butter, and graphite on canvas. 41 x 33 cm. Image by Roberto Ruiz. Courtesy of the artist and Spiritvessel.
Andrew Birk. Harmony, 2024. Bonne Maman raspberry jam, crunchy peanut butter, and graphite on canvas. 41 x 33 cm. Image by Roberto Ruiz. Courtesy of the artist and Spiritvessel.
Monia Ben Hamouda. Burial of all meanings III, 2024. Steel, iron, engine, enamel, soil, poppy seeds. 160 x 110 x 120 cm. Image by Roberto Ruiz. Courtesy of the artist and Spiritvessel.
Monia Ben Hamouda. Burial of all meanings III, 2024. Steel, iron, engine, enamel, soil, poppy seeds. 160 x 110 x 120 cm. Image by Roberto Ruiz. Courtesy of the artist and Spiritvessel.
Monia Ben Hamouda. Burial of all meanings III, 2024. Steel, iron, engine, enamel, soil, poppy seeds. 160 x 110 x 120 cm. Image by Roberto Ruiz. Courtesy of the artist and Spiritvessel.