Hande Sever
To Thread Air
Opening February 11, 7-9 PM
February 11-March 11 2023
Hande Sever’s new solo exhibition To Thread Air brings together a series of photographs and an essay-film to reveal the media-based materialities which undergird histories affected by the Cold War. The work is primarily structured around a montage of found footage excavated by the artist’s archival research at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, CA. Sever started producing To Thread Air in 2019 when she first came across the archival remnants of a ceremony held in the White House where Kenan Evren —the right-wing leader of the 1980 Turkish coup— received the legion of merit directly from former US President Ronald Reagan’s hands. Using the relationship between the two politicians and their reciprocal exculpations to structure the work, To Thread Air questions the deployment of artistic and creative practices to falsify information and revise historical events for personal and political gains.
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