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basis e. V. presents the first comprehensive solo exhibition by the duo Kaya & Blank. In their photographs, videos and multi-layered installations, the Los Angeles-based artists expose the infrastructures of capitalist production and ways of life.
Pumps, pipelines and refineries for fuel, ports, container ships and motorways for the transport of goods, endless monocultures for biofuel and food, data centres and radio towers for communication: our societies are driven by systems that work non-stop. Systems that span, shape and consume our world.
The nocturnal photographs and videos by Işık Kaya and Thomas Georg Blank focus on these critical architectures of neoliberal industry. In doing so, they find a visual language that allows for narrative distance. With uncanny simultaneity, they show processes that keep our industrial world running, while destroying it at the same time.
Through an intensive examination of the resources whose exploitation their works reveal, Kaya & Blank develop…
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basis e. V. presents the first comprehensive solo exhibition by the duo Kaya & Blank. In their photographs, videos and multi-layered installations, the Los Angeles-based artists expose the infrastructures of capitalist production and ways of life.
Pumps, pipelines and refineries for fuel, ports, container ships and motorways for the transport of goods, endless monocultures for biofuel and food, data centres and radio towers for communication: our societies are driven by systems that work non-stop. Systems that span, shape and consume our world.
The nocturnal photographs and videos by Işık Kaya and Thomas Georg Blank focus on these critical architectures of neoliberal industry. In doing so, they find a visual language that allows for narrative distance. With uncanny simultaneity, they show processes that keep our industrial world running, while destroying it at the same time.
Through an intensive examination of the resources whose exploitation their works reveal, Kaya & Blank develop…










































