DETAILS

• Title: 'Homies'
• Year: 2023
• Dimensions: 45 x 63 inch / 115 x 160cm
• Medium: oil on canvas

ABOUT 

In Homies, two nearly indistinguishable men ceremonially award each other medals in a closed circuit of mutual validation. Dressed alike and mirrored in posture, they appear less as separate individuals than as reflections within a self-sustaining system of influence.

A single shared set of AirPods — an intimate and faintly absurd detail — binds them further, suggesting synchronized thinking and private alignment within a public display. The staged exchange of honors becomes a performative ritual, revealing recognition not as merit but as transaction.

As in much of de Meijer’s work, the figures operate as archetypes rather than portraits. They embody a structure in which loyalty and complicity intertwine, and where power circulates internally, insulated from external accountability. The painting exposes the choreography of influence — a quiet economy of reciprocity in which affirmation replaces scrutiny and recognition masks self-interest.

THEMES

Power · Reciprocity · Influence · Complicity · Performance

AVAILABILITY

Available for institutional exhibition and private acquisition. Currently located in New York City.