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Current Resident: Aug 1, 2023–Sep 30, 2023

Studio #302

Merav Kamel & Halil Balabin

Merav Kamel and Halil Balabin are a Tel Aviv-based collaborative duo working together since 2012. Their artistic practice is the outcome of their collective intuition; they follow their instincts to create works that combine absurdity and humor with history, sexuality, and fantasy. Their work is frequently rooted on an inner joke or ironic anecdotes from their daily lives that mix into widespread critical claim. They use with such as fabric, wood, metal, and ceramic to create sculptural dolls and large-scale drawing installations.

Merav Kamel & Halil Balabin have exhibited work at Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Summlung Philara, Düsseldorf; and ZONAMACO Art fair, Mexico City, among others.

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Events & Exhibitions

Artists at Work: Merav Kamel & Halil Balabin

September 26, 2023, 6–7pm

A black wolf sewn out of fabric stands on a cylindrical black base. It has human teeth in its mouth and a small woman wearing a red t-shirt in its belly.

Merav Kamel & Halil Balabin, Virginia Woolf, 2017, fabric and teeth, 8 × 16 × 4 in. (20.32 × 40.64 × 10.16 cm)

Merav Kamel & Halil Balabin, Bile, 2023, installation view at Israel Museum, Jerusalem, wood, fabric, watercolor and ink on paper

Female figure with blonde hair riding a green snake

Merav Kamel & Halil Balabin, Riding the Hills, 2022, wood and color pencil, 31 × 20 × 7 in. (78.74 × 50.8 × 17.78 cm)

Merav Kamel & Halil Balabin, Maalal, 2016, installation view at Inga Gallery, Tel Aviv, oil pastel and gouache on paper

Merav Kamel & Halil Balabin, Pinhas, 2015, installation view at Kibbutz Gallery, Israel, photograph, back screening on fabric, PVC, 18 etchings and blue neon

Residents from Israel

Ruth Patir

Israel, United States

Artis

2023

Yael Frank

$\Permanent installation of a fake coconut tree bending down from the roof along the facade of Artport Residency Building$

Israel, United States

Artis

2022

Noa Yekutieli

The Chaos in Order, 2020, manual paper-cutting, xerox prints, 138 x 138 x 95 inches

United States, Israel

Artis, Office of Cultural Affairs, Consulate General of Israel in New York, ZAZ10TS, Tzili Charney

2023

South Korea

Current Resident: Sep 1, 2023–Nov 30, 2023

Doosan Art Center

Studio #303

Artist

Sol Enae Lee

Sol Enae Lee’s work is centered on translation and language semantics, articulating things that cannot be stated in words. She investigates performative and often ephemeral aspects such as movement, music, and light to reflect the constraints of language. Text functions as a point of departure for her work and goes through a continual translation process across multiple media in order to embody texts indifferently and open up spaces.

Sol Enae Lee has exhibited work at Bradwolff Project, The Netherlands; BAK basis voor actuele kunst, The Netherlands; and Venice International Performance Art Week, Italy, among others.

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The installation view of two sound-image converts devices and spectrograms for performance. Of those two devices, one is made of a mirror, vibration speaker and laser light and the other is made of a metal cup with a rubber lid and laser lights combined on a flat wooden stick which is hung like a swing.

Sol Enae Lee, so you should play on a swing-Project Fire is Scary, 2021, installation view, sound-image converts devices devices and spectrogram for the performance

The performer is sitting on the ground and reading the text to the device, which shows the vibration of the voice. The device is made of a metal cup with a rubber lid and laser lights combined on a flat wooden stick hung like a swing.

Sol Enae Lee, so you should play on a swing-Project Fire is Scary, 2021, performance, sound-image converts devices devices and spectrogram for the performance, 15 min

Two old printer parts have two roller bars and one handle to rotate the rollers to make the papers out. Printed spectrograms are installed between the rollers, and leftover spectrograms are connected and shaped paper-roll aside. There is a white wooden panel describing the score for using devices and spectrogram with a phone app.

Sol Enae Lee, Fire is scary-Project Fire is Scary, 2020, spectrogram reading performance, two parts of an old printing machine and score

The diagram on the wall contains simple shapes, arrows, and text. One visitor is passing by, reading the poster booklet of the project

Sol Enae Lee, 35 word, 2020, wall drawing and poster-booklet

The stair image posters in the space stick vertically on the wall from the bottom to the ceiling. The real stairs are next to the wall, and one performer is reading the instruction standing on the stairs to the other performer, who wears a glitter hat with stars stuck on it. The hat-wearing performer is jumping in front of the stairs.

Sol Enae Lee, 35 word-Pieces of Choreography to Fly, 2020, performance

Residents from South Korea

Suzy Park

South Korea

Doosan Art Center

Studio #204

Seeun Kim

South Korea

Doosan Art Center

2023

Dew Kim

South Korea

Doosan Art Center

2023

United States

Current Resident: Jul 1, 2023–Jun 30, 2024

Toby Devan Lewis

Studio #305

Artist

Laura Bernstein

Laura Bernstein creates layered worlds that explore human and animal behavior, as well as mythologies of metamorphose. Her work reflects on the climate through video, performance, installation, and painting, drawing inspiration from medieval illuminated manuscripts and theatrical spectacle traditions.

Laura Bernstein has exhibited at Essex Flowers Gallery; BRIC; and Children’s Museum of the Arts, all in New York, among others.

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Opening wide, a threshold exposing a procession of hybrid creatures, Hell Mouth explores mythologies of metamorphoses and origin stories of beasts in relation to Pliny the Elder’s Natural History, The Book of Miracles and contemporary stories of species displacement.

Laura Bernstein, Hell Mouth, 2022, installation with three-channel stop-motion video, 3:00 min loop (color, sound), hand-stitched appliqué textiles, 18 puppets made from aluminum armature wire and repurposed fabrics, hoops, plaster, dowels, wood, papier-mâché and imitation gold leaf, 42 × 36 × 36 in. (106.68 × 91.44 × 91.44 cm)

Documentation from public processional where community members helped activate the tapestry. Stitched in isolation, the 100 foot long story-scroll records the cascade of extreme weather and news events that occurred each month of 2020. In collaboration with other Rebecca Pristoop and The Moving Company and Friends, the project is an evolving invitation for public procession and collective meaning exploring the malleability of memory and symbols, seeking to stimulate curiosity and wonder toward the natural world through movement, color and form.

Laura Bernstein, Miracle Tapestries Processional, January I--December XII, 2020, 2021, assortment of recycled organic and synthetic fabrics, hand stitched, thread and 10 PVC pipes, 12 × 100 in. (30.48 × 254 cm)

Vignettes of scientists at work studying worldly species– murder hornets invading the Pacific Northwest, the spotted lantern flies swarming the Northeast —and mythological beasts, act as a blueprint for stop-motion animations.

Laura Bernstein, Murder Hornets Sun Spike, 2022, watercolor and ink on watercolor paper, 42 × 60 in. (106.68 × 152.4 cm)

Illuminator centers itself around a sexless wing finned figure, embedded with candles and barnacles--a humanoid candelabra--dripping, melting and congealing fleshy, gilded wax, presiding over a floor painting depicting the Fall of Babylon as an upside down city from Bamberg Apocalypse 1000 A.D. Working within the liminal space of pictures and words, Illuminator draws on imagery produced by anonymous authors of medieval manuscripts.

Laura Bernstein, Illuminator, 2019, plaster, burlap, steel plumbing pipes, wax, candles, glass, sand, imitation gold leaf, matchbox, brass, candle snuff, and acrylic on canvas and watercolor and ink on paper, dimensions variable

Directed and produced by Laura Bernstein, the performance event showcased the work of six multidisciplinary artists: Nikki Calonge as P.T. Trainer: Choreography and movement Simone Kearny as MC16c: Poetry Hanna Novak as Hybrid S.P: Love letter to Pliny presented as video text (featured within the image) Emily Reilly ER87: Dramaturge, a pseudoscientific lecture Paola Di Tolla as Pliny: Author of Encyclopedic Sound Score: Audible Tracings from Pliny The Elder's Natural History, 78 AD (2019), 5:00, mp3 Emily Taibleson as ET87: Field researcher and illustrator

Laura Bernstein, A Speculative Performance Presented by The Institute of Super-Species Research and Experimentation, (ISSRE), 2019, performance, 60 min.