Video Credit: James Measom (2026)

My Hat and My Other Hat

14th March - 19th April

A site-specific installation by Utrecht-based artist Caz Egelie.

My Hat and My Other Hat forms part of PINK’s international residency series, inviting artists to develop site-responsive work through engagement with Stockport’s materials, histories, and cultural landscape. Developed through a two-part residency at PINK, Egelie approaches Stockport’s history of hatmaking as a structure through which questions of identity, performance, and authorship are rehearsed. The installation transforms the gallery into a medieval-inspired tavern, whilst evoking a costume rental shop, storage room, or theatrical stage. Here, the boundaries between industrial production and craft, performer and spectator, self and character remain unsettled. Underlying it all is the hat’s oldest social function: its power to conceal as much as it signals, allowing a person to arrive somewhere unread, or to arrive as someone else entirely.