This new work Earthbound Whisperers was developed during an artist residency with Tate St Ives, where Büyüktaşcıyan drew parallels between the legends related to the standing stones of Cornwall and the female workforces of St Ives textile factories in the mid-twentieth century.
Hera Büyüktaşçıyan
Hera Büyüktaşçıyan (b.1984 Istanbul) In her multidisciplinary practice, Büyüktaşcıyan unfolds ways in which memory, identity, and knowledge are shaped by deeply ingrained yet constantly evolving waves of history. The artist often references mythology and theology, as well as specific architectural structures as the foundation for her works, closely observing their genealogies and the ways in which they shift and evolve over time.
Through her site specific interventions, sculptures, drawings and films, Büyüktaşcıyan dives into terrestrial imagination by unearthing patterns of selected narratives and timelines that unfold the material memory of unstable spaces.
Anne Barlow
Anne Barlow is Director of Tate St Ives where she oversees its programme of exhibitions, displays, artist residencies, new commissions, learning and research. Barlow was formerly Director of Art in General, New York, Curator of Education and Media Programs, New Museum, New York, and Curator of Contemporary Art and Design, Glasgow Museums, Scotland. She has published and lectured widely and was Curator of 5th Bucharest Biennale and Co-Curator of the Latvian Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale.
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