ARTISTS FROM TURKEY FEATURED AT 57TH VENICE BIENNIAL

Running from 13 May – 26 November 2017, the main exhibition of the 57th Venice Biennial – titled ‘Viva Arte Viva’, curated by Christine Macel – includes works by artists Hale Tenger and Nevin Aladağ from Turkey. Aladağ’s ‘Traces’ is a 3-channel video work. On three separate projection surfaces, Aladağ creates a large-scale sound-and-image portrait of the city of Stuttgart, the place she spent her childhood and adolescence. Hale Tenger’s 7 channel video installation entitled ‘Balloons on the Sea’ takes its subject directly from a popular pastime practiced along the Bosphorus in Istanbul and along the coasts of Turkey; a game of shooting at balloons laid on the sea.