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Crude Aesthetics installation at Marshall Gallery, 2023
Crude Aesthetics installation at Marshall Gallery, 2023
Kaya & Blank Turkish-German Duo, b. 1990
Crude Aesthetics, 2021
Single channel video projection (14:09 min.)
Variable dimensions
Edition of 5 plus 2 artist's proofs
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Artist Statement: No other nation consumes as much oil as the United States, which accounts for more than 20% of global consumption annually. The hunger for this resource has defined...
Artist Statement: No other nation consumes as much oil as the United States, which accounts for more than 20% of global consumption annually. The hunger for this resource has defined the nation’s politics for decades and the efforts to secure its flow are inscribed in the landscape. In Los Angeles and its vicinity, home to the country’s largest urban oil field and refineries, America is being transformed into a bizarre engine, the pacemaker of the passing age of petroleum.