Green Art Gallery is thrilled to announce “Balloons on the Sea”, Hale Tenger’s first solo exhibition at the Gallery. Opening on March 14th 2011 and on view until April 28th, the exhibition will introduce Tenger’s new 7 channel video installation, entitled “Balloons On The Sea”, with music composed by her long-time audio collaborator Serdar Ateşer.
If you are in town, this is definitely going to be a must-see show!
“Balloons on the sea” takes its subject directly from a popular pastime practiced along the Bosphorus in Istanbul and along the coastlines of Turkey; a game of shooting at balloons laid on the sea. A very radiant visual impact is created by a string of colorful balloons and their reflections on the sea, as they keep floating from side to side with the waves and the wind. In her installation Tenger reverses this image and thus fabricates an ambiguity where reflections become beings and beings become reflections. It is as if the reality is no more the reality that we take for granted.
Hale Tenger, "Prey", 2011, Video Still
Hale Tenger, Pink Balloon. single channel video still
Hale Tenger, Pink balloon. single channel video still
Similar to some of her earlier work, “Balloons on the Sea” bears a dominant dreamlike aspect that contains references to childhood and is based on the reflections of various psychological conditions. In this work the artist creates a fairy-like and poetic atmosphere surrounding the viewer, thus pulling the viewer to the field of dreams, the subconscious, the desires and fears that lie in the depth of collective memory.
Born in Izmir in 1960, Hale Tenger is an established multimedia artist whose works cut across conventional boundaries. Her large scale environments, video installations as well as objects and video works explore the dichotomy between nature and culture and consider the power relations and the importance of observation.
As well as having numerous solo exhibitions under her belt, including “Strange Fruit” at Galeri Nev in 2009, and “Never Never Land” at the Mannheimer Kuntsverein in Mannheim in 2001, her work has been also been featured in some of the most prominent international institutions. These include: Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna (2010), Istanbul Modern (2010), Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul (2009), Palais des Beaux Arts de Lille, Lille (2009), Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Arnhem (2006), Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2005) and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (1996).
Stay tuned for more images and updates as we draw closer to the unveiling of the show!
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