https://leeronturkaspa.com Leeron Tur-Kaspa Mon, 17 Aug 2020 10:25:18 +0000 https://leeronturkaspa.com en https://leeronturkaspa.com/New-Home Tue, 06 Mar 2018 16:52:43 +0000 Leeron Tur-Kaspa https://leeronturkaspa.com/New-Home https://leeronturkaspa.com/Sensual-Havoc-Library Mon, 17 Aug 2020 10:25:18 +0000 Leeron Tur-Kaspa https://leeronturkaspa.com/Sensual-Havoc-Library Sensual Havoc Library&nbsp;The Sensual Havoc Library is a reading space that accompanies the exhibition Sensual Havoc (curated by Nadja Hess and Hanna Monola, Amsterdam 2020). Each book was borrowed from the personal bookshelves of the participating artists and curators, in keeping with a series of interviews I completed with them. During those interviews, we talked about whether and how books have shaped their personal sexual development, as well as their artistic praxis. <img width="1322" height="988" width_o="1322" height_o="988" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/da41dffca5ef0b05416e732917feb7371569af77516e844d47d8407cd47f307d/Screen-Shot-2020-08-15-at-08.47.35.png" data-mid="80071712" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/da41dffca5ef0b05416e732917feb7371569af77516e844d47d8407cd47f307d/Screen-Shot-2020-08-15-at-08.47.35.png" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fbcacef51f806fd538e52606898975f03bc70de0098250de25f797bc58992874/ela.jpeg" data-mid="80071708" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fbcacef51f806fd538e52606898975f03bc70de0098250de25f797bc58992874/ela.jpeg" /> <img width="768" height="1024" width_o="768" height_o="1024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/96a1d6cf0474cfcedabcf1c311ce538da9872d93a669b01af722910984610340/martina.jpeg" data-mid="80071711" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/768/i/96a1d6cf0474cfcedabcf1c311ce538da9872d93a669b01af722910984610340/martina.jpeg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/72230047443ed748c83cad11fea7addfcfc3d9d514b1b6abe3c5ef9e07327c3b/roni.jpg" data-mid="80071709" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/72230047443ed748c83cad11fea7addfcfc3d9d514b1b6abe3c5ef9e07327c3b/roni.jpg" /> <img width="1600" height="901" width_o="1600" height_o="901" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/037d346421f85ee51e514d334d86c5c6ebd4ea7005e462ff280cb35e02c3f9a6/paulasan.jpeg" data-mid="80071710" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/037d346421f85ee51e514d334d86c5c6ebd4ea7005e462ff280cb35e02c3f9a6/paulasan.jpeg" /> Photographic impresions of the books inside the artists’ and curators’ homes Books are always, but especially now during physical isolation, sources of connection to the outside. For some of us, reading was our first encounter with a new idea or desire. Each book here affected us in some way; it may be a book that we have read over and over again, highlighted and earmarked, or it could be a book we only picked up a couple of times, but its existence alone has sparked a new way of thinking and relating, validating that something we believe to be true is not just a subjective instinct. What is clear is that writing about sexuality is a practice that transcends space, time, and language, and that reading about sexuality remains one of the most important ways in which we discover ourselves in the safe space between the lines.&nbsp; <img width="1474" height="498" width_o="1474" height_o="498" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/14662077d697622dad231e9a17c9dad882fc23a842e858608de7271be801ad65/Screen-Shot-2020-08-19-at-23.40.15.png" data-mid="80345173" border="0" data-scale="73" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/14662077d697622dad231e9a17c9dad882fc23a842e858608de7271be801ad65/Screen-Shot-2020-08-19-at-23.40.15.png" /> Although we perceive sexuality to be a personal and private affair, is it very much social. Sexuality is a mirror that reflects our cultural values and issues. Talking with the artists of this exhibition, certain themes stood out. There was a definite interest in deviance, and sexual deviance as a metaphor for breakdowns in social order. There was a fascination with technoculture and mechanical sex, juxtaposed with raw emotions and physical experiences. And there was an interest in approaches that are queer and fall outside heteronormative values.&nbsp; Whether the body was depicted through visual means or embodied through performance, voice, and song, having a witness and being seen are a prerequisite for connection and intimacy. <img width="1544" height="596" width_o="1544" height_o="596" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aa954a4691c0a51adb0fbbc958237b74441f027a3c9282b15a6a051564361595/Screen-Shot-2020-08-19-at-23.40.03.png" data-mid="80345172" border="0" data-scale="77" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aa954a4691c0a51adb0fbbc958237b74441f027a3c9282b15a6a051564361595/Screen-Shot-2020-08-19-at-23.40.03.png" /> This library mixes genres of queer theory, history of sexuality, self-help, fiction, erotic writing, and memoir. Slipped within the pages are bookmarks containing impressions and quotes from the interviews. <img width="1200" height="1600" width_o="1200" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/73ccf76297ae94b510a22c9bbc48be07ef6335c50011b236db87cb04113a02a0/8aab2a36-e9b0-4976-82e1-15f732fc6164.jpeg" data-mid="80343115" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/73ccf76297ae94b510a22c9bbc48be07ef6335c50011b236db87cb04113a02a0/8aab2a36-e9b0-4976-82e1-15f732fc6164.jpeg" /> <img width="1200" height="1600" width_o="1200" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1ed400ae0891b907220ca422a680dd91acd9c61503811b8d1c5720bd5c5418f1/b1371c09-29d3-40a7-aca6-f3562fd959ca.jpeg" data-mid="80343112" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1ed400ae0891b907220ca422a680dd91acd9c61503811b8d1c5720bd5c5418f1/b1371c09-29d3-40a7-aca6-f3562fd959ca.jpeg" /> <img width="1200" height="1600" width_o="1200" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3ab706bee7901605ba7ade2da74962af514a5e23d4c0c0294a0206a7c28340eb/cf6ad7ee-874d-40a9-bb92-ae41d1086829.jpeg" data-mid="80343111" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3ab706bee7901605ba7ade2da74962af514a5e23d4c0c0294a0206a7c28340eb/cf6ad7ee-874d-40a9-bb92-ae41d1086829.jpeg" /> <img width="1200" height="1600" width_o="1200" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a52c5e075978f0f142564657fe709e33dbac1de177299200d3f6382b036fc961/9dca9ac4-84e2-4129-898c-0370c82cb8de.jpeg" data-mid="80343449" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a52c5e075978f0f142564657fe709e33dbac1de177299200d3f6382b036fc961/9dca9ac4-84e2-4129-898c-0370c82cb8de.jpeg" /> Opening of Sensual Havoc, Broedplaats Lelylan, Amsterdam, August 15th, 2020 https://leeronturkaspa.com/SAATA-Surveilling-Art-at-the-Airport Sun, 16 Jun 2019 08:50:45 +0000 Leeron Tur-Kaspa https://leeronturkaspa.com/SAATA-Surveilling-Art-at-the-Airport Surveilling Art at the Airport (SAATA) Ongoing artistic research 2019 Entering an airport today, one is as likely to encounter an art exhibition as they would be obliged to consent to intrusive security scans. Exhibitions, site specific installations, and sculptures are no longer the exception, but the norm, when it comes to these spaces of transnational crossing. The increase of cultural activity at airports is usually met with praise, yet, who gets to enter the airport in the first place? And why is there a conflation between people who travel via airplanes and those who consume art? Surveilling Art at the Airport, or SAATA for short, is an ongoing interdisciplinary research on expanding exhibitions practices inside airports. It approached the airport as a non-place, an international border, a place saturated with surveillance gaze, and as an ideological state apparatus that camouflages its repressive power through a curated atmosphere of free access movement predicated on capital. At the same time, the project aims to connect these practices to a growing body of knowledge on contemporary art’s (CA) aesthetic and institutional reliance on transnational mobility. Currently, the project SAATA has been developed through a theoretical MA Thesis, lecture-performances, and a growing online archive with public presentations. <img width="960" height="720" width_o="960" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e1e1de887d9e71a4b13ab135435a0e5ff9cb70788f31b8fe5e8b6f6e65bfcbb6/61149917_1313260062167118_1671490062015004672_n.jpg" data-mid="44812815" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/e1e1de887d9e71a4b13ab135435a0e5ff9cb70788f31b8fe5e8b6f6e65bfcbb6/61149917_1313260062167118_1671490062015004672_n.jpg" />Aeroponics Acts, Dutch Art Institute,&nbsp;Silent Green Cultural Center, Berlin 2019, photo:&nbsp; Jacq van der Spek. &nbsp;&nbsp; https://leeronturkaspa.com/In-the-Language-of-Interrupted-Sleep Tue, 06 Mar 2018 17:46:08 +0000 Leeron Tur-Kaspa https://leeronturkaspa.com/In-the-Language-of-Interrupted-Sleep In the Language of Interrupted SleepFive hand embroidered pillowcases2018-2019 “Above all, it is the plethora of authorities and bureaus, of laws, prohibitions, and penalties, which give rise to the most varied anxiety dreams in a dictatorship.” -&nbsp;Charlotte Beradt, "Dreams Under Dictatorship," Free World (October 1943), 333–37.<img width="1643" height="1232" width_o="1643" height_o="1232" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1e1fc41c230abbe7bfa97b7dd714157a1b11482a3b797ee1ba4863ba9b6e67f3/20191019_143843.jpg" data-mid="55048113" border="0" data-scale="78" alt="In the Language of Interrupted Sleep, Stuttgart " data-caption="In the Language of Interrupted Sleep, Stuttgart " src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1e1fc41c230abbe7bfa97b7dd714157a1b11482a3b797ee1ba4863ba9b6e67f3/20191019_143843.jpg" /> Exhibition view, “Sleeping with a Vengeance, Dreaming of a Life“, 2019, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, photo: Hans D. Christ During the Second World War, a Berlin-based journalist who later escaped to the United States began collecting dreams. Charlotte Beradt was investigating the connection between the private and shared nightmares that appeared in sleep under dictatorship, eventually publishing her research in a book titled The Third Reich of Dreams. One of the most prominent themes Beradt noted were dreams related to bureaucracy and prohibitions, in a time where laws seemed to be continuously changing under people's feet. Inspired by Charlotte Beradt's work, In the Language of Interrupted Sleep draws attention to five pieces of legislation that knowingly or unknowingly outline whom is allowed to rest where, how, and under what conditions. &nbsp;Starting with the official definition of a refugee cemented during the 1951 World Refugee Convention that puts the burden of proof on individuals to show they have a "well-founded fear," to contemporary mandates relating to the vulnerability of homeless persons sleeping in the public sphere. The work reflects on how deeply personal concepts such as “harassment,” “character,” and "fear" are reduced to bureaucratic speech. <img width="640" height="480" width_o="640" height_o="480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d80c94b99f3cfd5462e86e4183c4b9515b72f49c04beb682faae12412128c132/IMG_4884.JPG" data-mid="55048116" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/640/i/d80c94b99f3cfd5462e86e4183c4b9515b72f49c04beb682faae12412128c132/IMG_4884.JPG" /> Photo by Ruth Noack, Institute for Provokation Bejing, 2018 Interpretation of dreams, considered to be open-ended and esoteric practice, is merged with interpretation of the law, falsely presumed to be an objective and didactic affair. As abstruse as the choice of segments are, however, they are not hallucinated but taken from actual legislation, whose ambiguities have real consequences. For it is often not the laws themselves that keep us up at night, but the uncertainty of where we stands in relation to them under shifting circumstances and governments. In this work, sleeplessness is materialized through the repetitive act of embroidering into the night. Empty statement usually seen on pillowcases such as 'Home is where the Heart is', are replaced with texts that actually define what the home is. The pillowcases are set hanging on a clothline, a space where intimate objects get aired out in the public. <img width="5616" height="3744" width_o="5616" height_o="3744" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bc9f16a913c461b80d6bd91d9cd01b9d8875b90e78c6b7ee5bb4b29dd84a36d3/Sleeping_Exhibition_Athens_087.JPG" data-mid="20385040" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bc9f16a913c461b80d6bd91d9cd01b9d8875b90e78c6b7ee5bb4b29dd84a36d3/Sleeping_Exhibition_Athens_087.JPG" /> Photo by Sanne Kabalt, Yellow Brick Studio, Athens 2018 In the Language of Interrupted Sleep&nbsp; was produced for the group exhibition "Sleeping with a Vengeance, Dreaming of a Life", curated by Ruth Noack. It was exhibited in Athens, Prague, Beijing, and Stuttgart. <img width="2000" height="2828" width_o="2000" height_o="2828" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6bc9e512717b45a0cea57497b9dda4d978f8f46664430eb042e39947d14bf9b6/Sleeping-with-a-Vengeance_2000.jpg" data-mid="55048118" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6bc9e512717b45a0cea57497b9dda4d978f8f46664430eb042e39947d14bf9b6/Sleeping-with-a-Vengeance_2000.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="1414" width_o="1000" height_o="1414" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0b7745a1ef2c011025c08303bf67b7b4169a124ed614fec8ed31fdc53f577162/Poster-Praha-final.jpg" data-mid="55048117" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0b7745a1ef2c011025c08303bf67b7b4169a124ed614fec8ed31fdc53f577162/Poster-Praha-final.jpg" /> <img width="724" height="1024" width_o="724" height_o="1024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ab5ab4e5637fd752391f268419ca90f7cda87f17cf78c8a93f97a3a3387d74c3/sleep.bejing-1.jpg" data-mid="55049357" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/724/i/ab5ab4e5637fd752391f268419ca90f7cda87f17cf78c8a93f97a3a3387d74c3/sleep.bejing-1.jpg" /> <img width="600" height="834" width_o="600" height_o="834" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0b2a6c2a24b2ad3a11d9cd44c631c7891b6250e4ae73517ce9ff72d76ea11929/unnamed.jpg" data-mid="55048119" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/600/i/0b2a6c2a24b2ad3a11d9cd44c631c7891b6250e4ae73517ce9ff72d76ea11929/unnamed.jpg" /> Yellow Brick Studio, Athens, Greece, 2018 Photos by Sanne Kabalt / CURRENT Athens / More info <img width="5616" height="3744" width_o="5616" height_o="3744" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bb1fba7dc9ae44120ae24fe1f5f68ecdde085409f63dc64f2e13caa9736a85a8/Sleeping_Exhibition_Athens_089.JPG" data-mid="20385042" border="0" alt="Photo by Sanne Kabalt " data-caption="Photo by Sanne Kabalt " src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bb1fba7dc9ae44120ae24fe1f5f68ecdde085409f63dc64f2e13caa9736a85a8/Sleeping_Exhibition_Athens_089.JPG" />&nbsp;<img width="640" height="480" width_o="640" height_o="480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a8729987fa1bf925e1a48271254d26480df95fb6ed441e513c6e847eb4cf4d36/IMG_4688.JPG" data-mid="55048115" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/640/i/a8729987fa1bf925e1a48271254d26480df95fb6ed441e513c6e847eb4cf4d36/IMG_4688.JPG" /> https://leeronturkaspa.com/Something-You-ve-Tasted-Before Tue, 06 Mar 2018 15:03:33 +0000 Leeron Tur-Kaspa https://leeronturkaspa.com/Something-You-ve-Tasted-Before Something Youve Tasted Before Collaboration with Miriam Naeh Hanina Gallery, Tel Aviv 2016 <img width="4000" height="2669" width_o="4000" height_o="2669" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1b6151a9fd5855493d4a0960ed24f36a519a7b4d4e8623e82ef7b6bf662c419c/fountain.jpg" data-mid="12454388" 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src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4549ca254367c5b5d261f27c2ce603734baf12ce33265d28b39a8e9eb7c2e713/alternative-view.jpg" /> <img width="4592" height="3064" width_o="4592" height_o="3064" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/02b1f5b76f70fb41c5905f17e43dc4041320e518ad4fefb9a82460a4a59e887b/14.jpg" data-mid="12460388" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/02b1f5b76f70fb41c5905f17e43dc4041320e518ad4fefb9a82460a4a59e887b/14.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="2669" width_o="4000" height_o="2669" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e0b3dedccfefede547bfc8378efd4429c478c5d5a9e999b0b617ca067bd8d228/views.jpg" data-mid="12454391" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e0b3dedccfefede547bfc8378efd4429c478c5d5a9e999b0b617ca067bd8d228/views.jpg" /> https://leeronturkaspa.com/Lightly-Scented Tue, 06 Mar 2018 17:34:05 +0000 Leeron Tur-Kaspa https://leeronturkaspa.com/Lightly-Scented Lightly ScentedCollaborator: Inbal Marie CohenCurator: Shirel Safra Location: Ha’Mercazit Gallery, Central Bus Station, Tel Aviv ILYear: 2016 “Lightly Scented” is a two-person exhibition that deals with domestic and public waste (both literally and as metaphor) through the sense of smell. Inbal Marie Cohen exhibited works that ranged from realistic paintings to collage, and Leeron Tur-Kaspa exhibited sculptures and site-specific installations.&nbsp; The exhibition took place in and related to the new Central Bus Station in Tel Aviv, a massive maze of active and abandoned spaces. One of the key characteristics of the CBS is its intense smell. Walking around and inside it, one is exposed to a strong smells of pee, puke, and sweat. The CBS is an unkept, bombastic structure that has become both a refuge and marketplace for inhabitants of the city that live outside its mainstream (some of the active businesses inside of it include a Philippine food market, a day care center for refugee children, a sex clinic for sex worker health, and a Yiddish Library). &nbsp; The two site specific works created by Leeron Tur-Kaspa for the space were ‘Jacob’s Ladder’ and ‘The Skirt’. ‘Jacob’s Ladder’ consists of a 3x3 meter hand-sewn faux-turf hill, in the center of which rests a bamboo structure held together by hemp rope. The scene begs the question of whether there is space for personal transformation through physical objects. The circular hill mimics the use of faux-turf inside the CBS itself, as decorative rotundas by moving staircases, creating an illusion of being outside while you are inside the massive structure.&nbsp; ‘The Skirt’ was created to clothe a massive eight-faced structural column at the center of the CBS art gallery. As if the architecutre of th CBS is not enought, the structural column is a notable eye sore that presents a challenge to any artist exhibiting inside the space. ‘The Skirt’ was machine-sewns from the artist’s own clothes, and gifted to the column as an act of tenderness and appropriation. Again, suggesting the possibility of intraperson and interpersonal transformation through everyday objects.&nbsp; Both of these site-specific installation were scented throughout the exhbition by the means of washing, spraying, and lighting insents throughout the exhibition, so that rituals of home cleaning and scenting also became part of the exhibition’s lifetime. <img width="4928" height="3280" width_o="4928" height_o="3280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9f06f7dcc9c56f75f6ada49a855096161385da3ee6eacb31c5f1b9f8ea8a9004/exhibition-2.jpg" data-mid="12466593" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9f06f7dcc9c56f75f6ada49a855096161385da3ee6eacb31c5f1b9f8ea8a9004/exhibition-2.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="2662" width_o="4000" height_o="2662" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/995ce1baee781e9c2d98274b033ce4b2436f1cc10e0e75aa5f6caf6eefaa2538/vulva-column.jpg" data-mid="12466599" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/995ce1baee781e9c2d98274b033ce4b2436f1cc10e0e75aa5f6caf6eefaa2538/vulva-column.jpg" /> <img width="4928" height="3280" width_o="4928" height_o="3280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7aebb16680f29e3664c21298f2e8f740fabf22cfced8ebd6ea66605194b30050/exhibition.jpg" data-mid="12466592" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7aebb16680f29e3664c21298f2e8f740fabf22cfced8ebd6ea66605194b30050/exhibition.jpg" /> <img width="2272" height="1520" width_o="2272" height_o="1520" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c062c57cbf53fe09de7019699f1fd84a33a98b1ac6598f9f4133411d66fc8e74/P1050918.JPG" data-mid="12466596" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c062c57cbf53fe09de7019699f1fd84a33a98b1ac6598f9f4133411d66fc8e74/P1050918.JPG" /> <img width="2272" height="1520" width_o="2272" height_o="1520" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/679cfe94771bdc1705399a15f8b531a3f78e4e9b3b86ff7b3c742c08e6b2ac5f/exhibition-grass.jpg" data-mid="12466594" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/679cfe94771bdc1705399a15f8b531a3f78e4e9b3b86ff7b3c742c08e6b2ac5f/exhibition-grass.jpg" /> <img width="1987" height="1277" width_o="1987" height_o="1277" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/16067b39aae241b035122c43c504f081697b1292ba537e059150b32f59bc6e5b/sunset-drawer.jpg" data-mid="12466598" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/16067b39aae241b035122c43c504f081697b1292ba537e059150b32f59bc6e5b/sunset-drawer.jpg" /> Photos by Yuval Chen and Leeron Tur-Kaspa https://leeronturkaspa.com/Are-We-There-Yet-2 Tue, 06 Mar 2018 16:31:28 +0000 Leeron Tur-Kaspa https://leeronturkaspa.com/Are-We-There-Yet-2 Are We There Yet?Two person exhibition with Sasha TamarinCurators: Miriam Naeh, Hila VugmanIndie Photogroup Gallery, Tel Aviv IL 2016In this joint exhibition Are We There Yet, Tamarin and Tur-Kaspa present a mixture of objects and photographs, representing frozen rock-like objects next to sentimental and soft materials. &nbsp;Tamarin’s photograph at the entrance of the space, showing a figure wearing a hat labeled “VISITORS ARE REAL” is both a play on the artists' multinational identity, and an invitation to enter into an alternate reality. Tur-Kaspa’s sculptures present various liquids and solids in different stages of development, and objects that are unsure of their own functionality. The materials she uses are neither organic nor synthetic, and so are the images of water and snow, faux natural displays, and even emotional sceneries that occupy Tamarin’s photographs. Both Tamarin and Tur-Kaspa maintain a duality between insider and outsider. Sasha Tamarin photographs urban and suburban landscapes in his homelands Israel and Russia, often taking on the persona of a tourist in order to re-examine the familiar. Tur-Kaspa bridges her two homelands Israel and the United States through the usage of everyday materials, rearranging relationships and emotional associations in order to blur the line between the decorative and the sincere. In the space between the flat image and the tangible object, the artists present the viewer with a blue playland where the rules are never what they seem.&nbsp; <img width="3500" height="2336" width_o="3500" height_o="2336" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b5186a1ca9139264e99dd661d8286a641b70e19b3b50caacd2a78cd16c96bbd1/blue-pool.jpg" data-mid="12461883" border="0" alt="&quot;The Three Sisters&quot;, window, resin, cat foor, chiklets, faux-pearls" data-caption="&quot;The Three Sisters&quot;, window, resin, cat foor, chiklets, faux-pearls" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b5186a1ca9139264e99dd661d8286a641b70e19b3b50caacd2a78cd16c96bbd1/blue-pool.jpg" /> <img width="2272" height="1520" width_o="2272" height_o="1520" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1df7bf1ef9a92e3f9b2302fb431bd6fc789bc817ebe0aa840525a76553cbcc6c/Yellow-2.jpg" data-mid="12461887" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1df7bf1ef9a92e3f9b2302fb431bd6fc789bc817ebe0aa840525a76553cbcc6c/Yellow-2.jpg" /> <img width="3500" height="2030" width_o="3500" height_o="2030" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/434708b1690cd17d85044527c57acd71af03a60053032cb8d98d75f7e2083b92/leeron-and-sasha-exhibit-2468.jpg" data-mid="12461908" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/434708b1690cd17d85044527c57acd71af03a60053032cb8d98d75f7e2083b92/leeron-and-sasha-exhibit-2468.jpg" /> <img width="3232" height="2160" width_o="3232" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9e7937984c1f583f3b9e54b3e969e62b241469355a44527f55dd0637e4682103/curtain-2-small.jpg" data-mid="12461885" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9e7937984c1f583f3b9e54b3e969e62b241469355a44527f55dd0637e4682103/curtain-2-small.jpg" /> <img width="2432" height="3500" width_o="2432" height_o="3500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f7c078e3dd2e6e5e2233f1cf11e4c1d56b91a5d5acb6e16cd5838ad4119b8503/leeron-and-sasha-exhibit-2508.jpg" data-mid="12461913" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f7c078e3dd2e6e5e2233f1cf11e4c1d56b91a5d5acb6e16cd5838ad4119b8503/leeron-and-sasha-exhibit-2508.jpg" /> <img width="3500" height="2336" width_o="3500" height_o="2336" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/74ed66824613049aff38e3d6a2cbb0dfe8a014c069b054027cffed556f728719/leeron-and-sasha-exhibit-2522.jpg" data-mid="12461916" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/74ed66824613049aff38e3d6a2cbb0dfe8a014c069b054027cffed556f728719/leeron-and-sasha-exhibit-2522.jpg" /> <img width="2272" height="1520" width_o="2272" height_o="1520" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ee4347554e97002e01bfc6131ecc7de344faeb64046a691d2327e5f29f7b79ad/simon.jpg" data-mid="12462798" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ee4347554e97002e01bfc6131ecc7de344faeb64046a691d2327e5f29f7b79ad/simon.jpg" /> <img width="3232" height="2424" width_o="3232" height_o="2424" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/013ebcfe37373df75d5831692f8eb0abcffbcc89c0452d6094190594fc746bae/P1040035.jpg" data-mid="12462766" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/013ebcfe37373df75d5831692f8eb0abcffbcc89c0452d6094190594fc746bae/P1040035.jpg" /> <img width="2272" height="1520" width_o="2272" height_o="1520" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/65afa2ffa2ebc132c6882ed61d17574d087dff02ef5770259153142b42fbd63b/hands-on-blue.jpg" data-mid="12462765" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/65afa2ffa2ebc132c6882ed61d17574d087dff02ef5770259153142b42fbd63b/hands-on-blue.jpg" /> <img width="2393" height="2921" width_o="2393" height_o="2921" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/87c19e1c4393f7c3503a6fdfefd1f2bf59f61b5bf724f6d3b2220a28a35898da/door.jpg" data-mid="12461886" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/87c19e1c4393f7c3503a6fdfefd1f2bf59f61b5bf724f6d3b2220a28a35898da/door.jpg" /> <img width="2272" height="1520" width_o="2272" height_o="1520" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3f1cc959f05e5f54d9517d7c741f70e837f2dd1a171559fdf250a239536b5fea/trap-door.jpg" data-mid="12462799" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3f1cc959f05e5f54d9517d7c741f70e837f2dd1a171559fdf250a239536b5fea/trap-door.jpg" /> https://leeronturkaspa.com/Nobody-Loves-You-Better Tue, 06 Mar 2018 16:30:09 +0000 Leeron Tur-Kaspa https://leeronturkaspa.com/Nobody-Loves-You-Better Nobody Loves You Better Site-specific installation with Sasha TamarinArtspace Tel Aviv 2015“One man’s trash is another man’s treasure”This site-specific installation deals with love. The love of things, and the love of people, and the ways in which these too get confused along the way. The way love gets marketed to us, and the ways in which that marketing fails. Collecting trash over a period of one year, Tur-Kaspa selects the finest, most interesting specimens, connecting objects together into hybrids, non-reproductive objects. Sasha Tamarin contributes an intimate video work, showing a young couple self-consciously kissing in front of a faux-park scene.&nbsp; <img width="1200" height="801" width_o="1200" height_o="801" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e16ae953ff47854ddd3e57eac78b5f75e3f3dc117dff45a8580f17702b785392/grass.jpg" data-mid="12460641" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e16ae953ff47854ddd3e57eac78b5f75e3f3dc117dff45a8580f17702b785392/grass.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="801" width_o="1200" height_o="801" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/26ad1676752d21bb57f279c087b07223323b16e3146f09d8ee2ffd80e64b2994/LEERON-SASHA-5914.jpg" data-mid="12460643" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/26ad1676752d21bb57f279c087b07223323b16e3146f09d8ee2ffd80e64b2994/LEERON-SASHA-5914.jpg" /> <img width="801" height="1200" width_o="801" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aba0f0a15b720a0550961f9c5a666e739a824d705dfdc132ec19bc02d28d83ac/siamese-razor.jpg" data-mid="12460769" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/801/i/aba0f0a15b720a0550961f9c5a666e739a824d705dfdc132ec19bc02d28d83ac/siamese-razor.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="801" width_o="1200" height_o="801" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1d8718b00b3acd06accc283b956021ba0d1c4e27dfa0d9bdc351f2108c5e38d3/LEERON-SASHA-5919.jpg" data-mid="12460644" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1d8718b00b3acd06accc283b956021ba0d1c4e27dfa0d9bdc351f2108c5e38d3/LEERON-SASHA-5919.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="801" width_o="1200" height_o="801" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/820902479a7fcbe5bfce996118f7cf934fc1f23e5d120421785cf18e850476f3/Waving-Nobody-Loves-You-Better.jpg" data-mid="12460770" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/820902479a7fcbe5bfce996118f7cf934fc1f23e5d120421785cf18e850476f3/Waving-Nobody-Loves-You-Better.jpg" /> <img width="3306" height="2126" width_o="3306" height_o="2126" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/13fee30fdfb495a390f633ea825d5a78815851eecff53338872de78bfe492fb4/leerom-postcard-5946.jpg" data-mid="12464887" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/13fee30fdfb495a390f633ea825d5a78815851eecff53338872de78bfe492fb4/leerom-postcard-5946.jpg" /> <img width="801" height="1200" width_o="801" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/92a31de3fa51c787a73510dc07989d6378869f949b9768a027164bb94d4ecabe/LEERON-SASHA-5909.jpg" data-mid="12464940" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/801/i/92a31de3fa51c787a73510dc07989d6378869f949b9768a027164bb94d4ecabe/LEERON-SASHA-5909.jpg" /> <img width="801" height="1200" width_o="801" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d6dbff88146df36d2f87ef2bf584356efb4eb3bb89ae7edbff6703be3fe188e7/LEERON-SASHA-5925.jpg" data-mid="12460645" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/801/i/d6dbff88146df36d2f87ef2bf584356efb4eb3bb89ae7edbff6703be3fe188e7/LEERON-SASHA-5925.jpg" /> <img width="801" height="1200" width_o="801" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/92a31de3fa51c787a73510dc07989d6378869f949b9768a027164bb94d4ecabe/LEERON-SASHA-5909.jpg" data-mid="12464940" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/801/i/92a31de3fa51c787a73510dc07989d6378869f949b9768a027164bb94d4ecabe/LEERON-SASHA-5909.jpg" /> https://leeronturkaspa.com/Property-Laws Tue, 06 Mar 2018 16:39:58 +0000 Leeron Tur-Kaspa https://leeronturkaspa.com/Property-Laws Property LawsCollaborator: Gabriel Christian Location: Madame Space for the Arts, Minneapolis, USYear: 2015“1. If I like it, it’s mine. 2. If it’s in my hand, it’s mine. 3. If I can take it from you, it’s mine. 4. If I had it a little while ago, it’s mine. 5. If it’s mine, it must never appear &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; to be yours in any way. 6. If I’m doing or building something, &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; all the pieces are mine. 7. If it just looks like mine, it’s mine.” The quote above is from a found poster. The original title reads “Toddler Property Laws”, but as one can tell in an instant, these are the rules many of us still play by. This collaboration with the performance artist Gabriel Christian took place in a LGBTQ center in Minneapolis, with the further participation of several local performance and musical groups (Gay Henry, Lazer, White Boyfriend, and more). The intention was to spend one week creating an immersive installation that is both an exhibition and a set. The work attempted to tackle ongoing tensions in the US over racial and gender divides through the language of play.&nbsp; <img width="4592" height="3448" width_o="4592" height_o="3448" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7ac9a1ee96f07ab6f45a52a02011bc86d7a6c3b1f237f2d252076ee2a952efae/P1030432.jpg" data-mid="12463234" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7ac9a1ee96f07ab6f45a52a02011bc86d7a6c3b1f237f2d252076ee2a952efae/P1030432.jpg" /> <img width="4592" height="3448" width_o="4592" height_o="3448" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6d9bc52c5e945e2c0d143de6ec2815e31f0a63ffbcae459655fe215e7b314ab2/P1030239.JPG" data-mid="12463262" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6d9bc52c5e945e2c0d143de6ec2815e31f0a63ffbcae459655fe215e7b314ab2/P1030239.JPG" /> <img width="1572" height="1180" width_o="1572" height_o="1180" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d0eff906c1fd1c31aea74dff64621ed3ef8627701fcbebc2778cc52b08cf36aa/8a3998_6b02b684c1a44a4ca310e32d52fdb0f2.jpg" data-mid="12463344" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d0eff906c1fd1c31aea74dff64621ed3ef8627701fcbebc2778cc52b08cf36aa/8a3998_6b02b684c1a44a4ca310e32d52fdb0f2.jpg" /> <img width="3232" height="1824" width_o="3232" height_o="1824" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3190106f038d1739d64cc1e030da2deb715f41dd86db836f0f84e498239422d9/P1030475.jpg" data-mid="12463513" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3190106f038d1739d64cc1e030da2deb715f41dd86db836f0f84e498239422d9/P1030475.jpg" /> https://leeronturkaspa.com/Home Sun, 04 Mar 2018 17:00:05 +0000 Leeron Tur-Kaspa https://leeronturkaspa.com/Home