Hale Tenger is one of the most important artists of her generation. A sensitive observer of the power relations that shape and change realities, Tenger has spent over three decades exploring how to navigate the search for freedom, and actions in the world when faced with its absence, through the poetics of image, sound and language.
Hale Tenger / Borders / Borders is the first museum survey of the artist's work. Spanning the 1990s to the present, it features key multimedia installations alongside significant video, sculptural and sound works that encapsulate Tenger's enduring preoccupations: hegemony, human oppression, the subjugation of more-than-human life forms, and the tension between violence and gentleness; as they relate to the cyclical recurrence of war and peace.
The exhibition demonstrates Tenger's unique construction of affective atmospheres through the intricate layering of sound, image and language. Her installations unfold slowly, revealing a subtle interplay of presence and absence, truth and fiction, past and future. These are works that resist resolution in favour of cultivating reflection on how history is constructed, how narratives are weaponised, and how to new ways of being within, and beyond, borders.
Hale Tenger / Borders / Borders is the first museum survey of the artist's work. Spanning the 1990s to the present, it features key multimedia installations alongside significant video, sculptural and sound works that encapsulate Tenger's enduring preoccupations: hegemony, human oppression, the subjugation of more-than-human life forms, and the tension between violence and gentleness; as they relate to the cyclical recurrence of war and peace.
The exhibition demonstrates Tenger's unique construction of affective atmospheres through the intricate layering of sound, image and language. Her installations unfold slowly, revealing a subtle interplay of presence and absence, truth and fiction, past and future. These are works that resist resolution in favour of cultivating reflection on how history is constructed, how narratives are weaponised, and how to new ways of being within, and beyond, borders.