50 Years of Serpentine – Back to Earth
REVITAL COHEN AND TUUR VAN BALEN: HEAVENS
Heavens is co-commissioned by Malevich.io and Serpentine Galleries for the Serpentine’s Back to Earth project. Rehearsals towards Heavens were presented as Three Hearts at Shanghai Biennale 2021 (April-July 2021) and POWER NIGHT, E-Werk Luckenwalde (May-July 2021).
The Swiss Church, London
12 – 17 October 2021
As part of Serpentine’s 50 year anniversary exhibition project Back to Earth, artists Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen are developing Heavens. In its completed version Heavens will be a moving-image work and installation. Created using planetarium projection methods to overlay planetary footage with deep sea imagery, Heavens looks at deep space to see deep into the ocean, or perhaps the other way around. A multi-channel sound installation will form a choir of voices (human and non), unraveling a creation myth based on the hypothesis of a cosmic cause to the Cambrian explosion.
ABOUT REVITAL COHEN & TUUR VAN BALEN
Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen work across objects, installation and film to explore processes of production as cultural, personal and political practices. Their work was recently shown at The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Renaissance Society in Chicago, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Para Site Hong Kong, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Vienna, HKW in Berlin, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo and Congo International Film Festival. It is part of the permanent collections of the MoMA, New York and M+ Museum in Hong Kong.
