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Under the Mother Earth's Skin<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Sencer <\/span>Vardarman\u2019s<\/span> (b.1970, Istanbul) exhibition Under <\/em><\/span>the Mother<\/span><\/em> Earth\u2019s Skin<\/em> opens the exhibition <\/span>programme<\/span>. The exhibition consists of the three-screen video installation Wounded Ground II<\/em> (19:26 min, 2020<\/span>). For<\/span> this work, <\/span>Vardarman<\/span> has created collages of images taken from space, which show opencast mines, <\/span>located<\/span> in eleven different countries, which people have <\/span>protested against<\/span>. The opencast mines cause environmental pollution, extinctions in nature and suffering among the people in the area.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this work, Vardarman both documents and aesthetizes how humans cause the destruction of Planet Earth. The sharp and intensive images of the video work have been created by combining over 1,000 individual satellite images of each of the mines and using image processing to bring out the colours that could not be made out of individual satellite images. The mines, shot from a distance, become unreal, beautiful and captivating. At the same time, the work offers the viewer the opportunity to re-evaluate their relationship with the nature-destroying mining. The mines are used to produce fossil fuels and metals, such as gold, silver, copper and nickel, which are necessary for humans\u2019 ever-growing consumption need.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vardarman examines in his works the imagery which the media, researchers and advertisements offer of urban development, industry and natural disasters. He is interested in how a viewer\u2019s perception can be purposefully manipulated in media images. Vardarman himself also employs photo manipulation methods when editing the landscapes in the images. By combining fragments of different pictures, he creates works that make the viewer unsure of what is real and what isn\u2019t real in the image.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vardarman lives and works in Berlin.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photo: Ville M\u00e4kil\u00e4, Museum Centre of Turku.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

WAMx\u202f: The Things We Are Made Of\u202f<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

WAMx’s international expert in 2020 is Ece Pazarba\u015f\u0131, a curator based in Berlin. She has designed the exhibition programme to align with the title The Things We Are Made Of. The programme shifts our focus from what divides us to what unites us: at the end of the day, we are all made of the same elements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other exhibitions<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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The Things We Are Made Of: Ulrike Mohr (ulkoinen linkki)<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n
The Things We Are Made Of: Elsa Salonen (ulkoinen linkki)<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n
The things we are made of: Elina Vainio (ulkoinen linkki)<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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