RoB
Emirhakin
Opening hours:
11:00 - 19:00
Address:
Warmoesstraat 71
EMIRHAKIN approaches RoB as an evolving archive of contemporary desire where fantasy, comfort, taboo, and care are packaged, displayed, lubricated into circulation, and socially negotiated at the same time. The artist re-reads the shop’s materials as cultural signs with social and spiritual charge. By cross-wiring the erotic with the devotional, EMIRHAKIN shifts the surface of desire into tactile, close-to-skin formats, that hold space for the loneliness inside one’s fantasy. The collaboration becomes a lens for examining how desire is shaped, disciplined, protected, and aestheticised, and how “protective” aesthetics in particular mark bodies as guarded, celebrated, or controlled.
EMIRHAKIN’s practice encompasses the mediums of performance, text, video, and installation, which are translated into visual (and non-visual) indexes. By challenging the bodily experience of the artist and the audience, his long-durational pieces dismantle the predefined ways of observing and performing, consider the space beyond physicality as a negotiation, and resist the constructed idea of time through the modes of queer temporalities.
About Location
Established in 1975 by Rob Meijer, RoB Amsterdam emerged as one of Europe's pioneering specialists in leather fetish craftsmanship. Over the years, they have consistently maintained their position as a premier destination for bespoke leather fetish gear. Originally situated on Weteringschans, the shop and workshop have now found their home at Warmoesstraat 71 in the heart of Amsterdam.