Galeri Nev welcomes the new season with Hale Tenger’s show “Strange Fruit”, opening on the 8th of September.
Like Tenger’s two previous solo shows “Can’t Come Close” opened at Galeri Nev in 2005 and “Lahavle” opened at Yapı Kredi Cultural Center Kazım Taşkent Gallery in 2007, which bore her trademark political and psychological references, the new show consists of an installation taking up the entire gallery space.
Hale Tenger’s new installation “Strange Fruit” leaves its viewer in between several worlds. The visitor is tenderly taken into the staged up atmosphere of “Strange Fruit” and in the same way set free to step back into her/his world that is usually more ‘staged’ than any show or exhibit on earth. As the title refers to the poem “Strange Fruit” written back in ’30s by Abel Meeropol about the injustices –particularly the lynched bodies being hung from the trees– that took place against the African Americans, the installation is an attempt to take a look at the mentality behind all the injustices, not only against humanity but also against the planet earth. “Strange Fruit” decisively situates planet earth as a more genuine living “being” relentlessly seeking compassion from its so-called “civilized” inhabitants.
