Hannah Mevis
1 April 2025 – 30 May 2025
Hannah Mevis is a multidisciplinary artist and sculptor who explores the intersection of performative, sculptural, and interactive formats. She studied Sculpture & Public Art at HBK Saar, graduating in 2017, and further developed her experimental, process-oriented artistic practice at the HISK (Higher Institute for Fine Arts) in Ghent, Belgium (2018–2019).
Her work explores how social, historical, and emotional narratives are inscribed in the body, blending traditional sculpture with performances, installations, and interactive formats. By focusing on physical perception, exhaustion, and collective self-empowerment, she creates immersive and participatory experiences that invite reflection on the body’s relationship to memory and society. From 2021 to 2023, Mevis has been awarded a Graduate Fellowship from the University of Saarland to support her artistic research on the concept of Erschöpfung (Exhaustion).
As part of her residency at LABoral, Mevis will continue her research on the intersection of labor, care, and communal space, exploring the ways in which performative acts can reintegrate forgotten or hidden forms of collective solidarity.
Project in residence
Tethys, today I washed my eyes in the riverbed!
“The work of care and self-care is unproductive, remains forever unfinished, and, thus, can be only deeply frustrating. However, it is the most basic and necessary work. Everything else depends on it.”
— Boris Groys, Philosophy of Care
Hannah Mevis will come to Gijon to investigate the lavaderos – public laundry places – as sites of gendered labour and communal exchange. During her residency she will conduct interviews with local people and feminist groups, exploring how these spaces fostered solidarity and the exchange of knowledge across communities. She is looking for voices who want to share their stories and experiences, for movements that she has never done before, and for answers to the question of how empowerment and community can feed each other. Combining oral stories and physical engagement, this research will focus on how we can actively choose the way we live together.
