Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen
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In a conversation discussing their approach to “Palms Palms Palms,” a show surveying the past ten years of their work, Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen referred to the concept of apophenia, the tendency to perceive connections between unrelated things. The London-based duo’s work possesses this quality in spades: Taking place in the realms of artistic research, production, and presentation and reaching into our global systems of production, mechanization, and investment, their investigations postulate relationships between raw materials, human and animal labor, capital, extraction, industrial