Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen: Daughter of Dog

Over the years, Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen have assembled a meticulous body of works that intervene in and poetically short-circuit existing planetary networks: from industrial assembly lines and global supply chains to bioengineering labs and gambling halls. Whether reverse-engineering the manufacture of electronic devices back to their raw components, introducing glitches in global trade routes or breeding their own species of sterile goldfish, the artist duo seeks to interrupt and reroute these abstract and impersonal systems while shining a light onto their complex bio and geopolitical entanglements. The pair’s current exhibition, ‘Daughter of Dog’, comprises ciphers and motifs familiar from their previous work, yet pushes them into new territory. Here it’s not impersonal systems that are taken apart and reassembled, but personal experiences of loss and grief, particularly the aggressive responses triggered by the severance of affective bonds with humans and non-humans alike.