Marfa' presents That Is Water, That Is Earth, a group exhibition of works by
Caline Aoun, Hera Büyüktaşçıyan, Dala Nasser, Zoë Paul, curated with Mari
Spirito. Artworks in That Is Water, That Is Earth are linked by navigation of the
conditions of our times, giving materiality to the immaterial aspects in our
societies.
Accompanying factors such as rapidly shifting societal and economic
structures, as well as psychological and emotional aspects of this transition
into the Digital Age, give way to these four responsive voices. Fluidity, in this
case, a metaphor for ideas, information and historical time, is constant yet
never the same, uncertain and layered.
Access to more information has the ability to open up new ways of thinking,
new understandings of everything, including time, history and each other – new
ways that have yet to be conceived. Caline Aoun, Hera Büyüktaşçıyan, Dala
Nasser, Zoë Paul are some of the artists of this moment working with related
concerns from different perspectives, in different modes and materials,
connected by a fluidity. That Is Water, That Is Earth investigates possible ways to
express many notions of these times, and attempts to grasp the expansion of
being, that is both of this earth/material and not/immaterial.
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Hera BüyüktaşçıyanThe Wanderer’s Storm - Song, 2018Pillow cases, glue, bronzeDimensions Variable, 9 piecesCourtesy of Marfa’ ProjectsCopyright The Artist -
Zoë PaulHoops at the shoreline of the sea, 2018Ceramic, collected rocks, chain, copper150 x 200 cm – variable heightCourtesy of Marfa’ ProjectsCopyright The Artist
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Zoë PaulUntitled , 2017Wool and thread on found fridge grill130 x 63 x 7 cmCourtesy of Marfa’ ProjectsCopyright The Artist
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Zoë PaulUntitled , 2017Wool and thread on found fridge grill
122 x 60 x 7 cmCourtesy of Marfa’ ProjectsCopyright The Artist -
Dala NasserI’m not going to talk about that, 2018Liquid latex, trauma blanket, resin, industrial plastic sheeting,
yellow pigment140 x 170 cm
Courtesy of Marfa’ ProjectsCopyright The Artist -
Caline AounDispersion 6, 2017Inkjet print on hahnemuhle paper144 x 155.5 cmCourtesy of Marfa’ ProjectsCopyright The Artist
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Caline AounDispersion 5 , 2017Inkjet print on hahnemuhle paper114 x 166 cmCourtesy of Marfa’ ProjectsCopyright The Artist
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Caline AounDispersion 7, 2017Inkjet print on hahnemule paper114 x 150.5 cmCourtesy of Marfa’ ProjectsCopyright The Artist
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Caline AounFountain 2 , 2018Aluminum, inkjet ink, pumpDiameter: 60 cmCourtesy of Marfa’ ProjectsCopyright The Artist
Hera Büyüktaşçıyan
Hera Büyüktaşçıyan (b. 1984, Istanbul) graduated from Marmara University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Painting department in 2006. Past residencies include Delfina Foundation, London; Villa Waldberta, Munich; AIRDrop, Stockholm; PiST/// Interdisciplinary Project Space, Istanbul; and ACSL, Yerevan. Selected exhibitions include: solo exhibition at Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) Gallery, Berlin(forthcoming); Underneath The Arches, Naples, 2018; Write Injuries on Sand and Kindness in Marble, Green Art Gallery, Dubai, 2017; Armenity, Armenian Pavillion, 56th Venice Biennale, Venice, 2017; Saltwater, Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, 2015
Zoë Paul
Zoë Paul (b.1987, London) lives and works in Athens. After finishing her undergraduate at Camberwell College of art, she completed her MA in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art, London. Selected exhibitions include: La Perma-Perla Kraal Emporium, SPIKE Island, Bristol, 2018; La Perma-Perla Kraal Emporium, The Breeder, Athens, 2017; Equilibrists organized by the New Museum, New York and the DESTE Foundation, Athens at the Benaki Museum, Athens, 2016; Solitude and Village, The Breeder, Athens, 2016; Unorthodox at the Jewish Museum, New York, 2015
Dala Nasser
Dala Nasser (b.1990, Beirut) lives and works in Beirut after having completed her BFA in London at UCL’s Slade School of Fine Arts in 2016. She was awarded the Boise Travel Scholarship and the Sursock Museum’s 32nd Salon D’Automne Emerging Artist Prize. Selected exhibitions include Surface Work at Victoria Miro, London, 2018; The Pain of Others, Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles, 2018; An Unpredictable Expression of Human Potential, ACT II of the Sharjah Biennial 13, Beirut Art Center, 2017; Ghosting of Beings and Worlds, Greynoise Gallery, Dubai, 2017; 32nd Salon D’Automne, Sursock Museum, Beirut, 2016.
Caline Aoun
Caline Aoun (b.1983, Beirut) lives and works between Beirut and London. She graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins, London, in 2005. In 2009, she received a Postgraduate degree in Fine Art from the Royal Academy School, London. She also earned a Professional Doctorate in Fine Art at the University of East London, London in 2012. Her work has been recently exhibited at the MAXXI, Rome, Centre For Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland, Mosaic Rooms, London, UK, Casa Árabe, Madrid, Spain, Casa Árabe, Cordoba, Spain, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland. Aoun is Deutsche Bank’s Artist of the Year 2018. In autumn 2018, she will present her first large-scale institutional solo exhibition at the MAXXI, Rome
Hera Büyüktaşçıyan (b. 1984, Istanbul) graduated from Marmara University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Painting department in 2006. Past residencies include Delfina Foundation, London; Villa Waldberta, Munich; AIRDrop, Stockholm; PiST/// Interdisciplinary Project Space, Istanbul; and ACSL, Yerevan. Selected exhibitions include: solo exhibition at Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) Gallery, Berlin(forthcoming); Underneath The Arches, Naples, 2018; Write Injuries on Sand and Kindness in Marble, Green Art Gallery, Dubai, 2017; Armenity, Armenian Pavillion, 56th Venice Biennale, Venice, 2017; Saltwater, Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, 2015
Zoë Paul
Zoë Paul (b.1987, London) lives and works in Athens. After finishing her undergraduate at Camberwell College of art, she completed her MA in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art, London. Selected exhibitions include: La Perma-Perla Kraal Emporium, SPIKE Island, Bristol, 2018; La Perma-Perla Kraal Emporium, The Breeder, Athens, 2017; Equilibrists organized by the New Museum, New York and the DESTE Foundation, Athens at the Benaki Museum, Athens, 2016; Solitude and Village, The Breeder, Athens, 2016; Unorthodox at the Jewish Museum, New York, 2015
Dala Nasser
Dala Nasser (b.1990, Beirut) lives and works in Beirut after having completed her BFA in London at UCL’s Slade School of Fine Arts in 2016. She was awarded the Boise Travel Scholarship and the Sursock Museum’s 32nd Salon D’Automne Emerging Artist Prize. Selected exhibitions include Surface Work at Victoria Miro, London, 2018; The Pain of Others, Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles, 2018; An Unpredictable Expression of Human Potential, ACT II of the Sharjah Biennial 13, Beirut Art Center, 2017; Ghosting of Beings and Worlds, Greynoise Gallery, Dubai, 2017; 32nd Salon D’Automne, Sursock Museum, Beirut, 2016.
Caline Aoun
Caline Aoun (b.1983, Beirut) lives and works between Beirut and London. She graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins, London, in 2005. In 2009, she received a Postgraduate degree in Fine Art from the Royal Academy School, London. She also earned a Professional Doctorate in Fine Art at the University of East London, London in 2012. Her work has been recently exhibited at the MAXXI, Rome, Centre For Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland, Mosaic Rooms, London, UK, Casa Árabe, Madrid, Spain, Casa Árabe, Cordoba, Spain, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland. Aoun is Deutsche Bank’s Artist of the Year 2018. In autumn 2018, she will present her first large-scale institutional solo exhibition at the MAXXI, Rome
