OKLA - Metamorphosis in Motion
Sat, Jun 14
|Pennings Foundation
The installation OKLA - Metamorphosis in Motion is part of the exhibition GENDER
Time & Location
Jun 14, 2025, 5:30 PM – Jun 21, 2025, 5:00 PM
Pennings Foundation, Geldropseweg 63, 5611 SE Eindhoven, Nederland
About the event
EN: The installation ‘Metamorphosis in Motion’ traces the evolution of identity through three forms: created by OKLA (fashion), reinterpreted by others (photography), and reimagined by AI (video). OKLA explores drag as a living process — blurring gender, art, and technology — to challenge fixed truths and celebrate transformation, visibility, and self-expression.More than a fusion of fashion, photography, and video, this installation reflects on identity as a fluid, evolving process. Inspired in part by the Taoist parable of Zhuangzi — the man who dreamt he was a butterfly, and questioned which reality was true — it invites viewers to ask: Where does the self end and the performance begin? What is real, and what is a dream retold? What makes us ‘us’?
Participating photographers: Robin Kühn, Piotr Durbajło, Victor Shopov.Special thanks to makeup artist Haroz, fashion studio LABELEDBY., Ralf Jacobs, andFashion Tech Farm for their generous support.Mikhail Erokhin (1992, Novosibirsk, Russia)Performing…