EVERYTHING BUT FACIAL is the culmination of nine months of investigation which Matias started in April 2017 at the NEVERNEVERLAND residency at de Nachtegaal, Amsterdam Zuidoost, focusing on the repercussions of capitalism in the bodies and minds of today’s society.

Corporate societies have evolved into an over-edited reality since major companies and industries have created imagery to influence, define and control the way we see ourselves and how we behave. Therefore, mass followers and a majority are created, resulting in a normalization of behaviour. In such systems, non-conformist thoughts and beliefs continuously face challenges, often in an attempt to instigate change. With atmospheric site-specific installations, EVERYTHING BUT FACIAL reflects on corporatism, neo-liberal capitalism, normativity, display and consumerism through performative destruction and chaos.
In EVERYTHING BUT FACIAL voice and body are considered as a tool for change and revolution. In the course of the exhibition, performers deconstruct and mess up the installations. Their non-normative and queer bodies represent the labour as well as the disruptive power each one of us holds in our hands. Here, the body becomes political, beyond gender and sexuality, using both concepts to expose diversity and demystify normative roles. Their movements could be considered the longing for - or the possibility of - a queer utopia. EVERYTHING BUT FACIAL faces challenges of dominant corporate societies and is a colourful performative attempt of creating alternative knowledge.