Site Specific Works Drawn in duct tape directly on the wall, Tirtzah Bassel’s site specific installations turn a material of quick fixes and temporary solutions into a painterly language. Beginning with the airport in Airport In Security and continuing at the art fair in Duct Tape Miami, these works explore spaces of transience, and the permeable borders between public and private, intimacy and exposure.

Home Land Security brought eighteen international artists into the historic military structures of Fort Winfield Scott, overlooking San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge, to reflect on the human dimensions of national security. Bassel’s installation, Concourse, took on the airport after 9/11, where freedom and global connection have become increasingly entangled with surveillance and fugitivity: the security pat down, the postures of waiting, the no man’s land of the transit lounge. Drawn in a temporary material on the walls of a structure built for permanent defense, the images and the site read against each other, each unsettling what the other seems to promise. Curated by Cheryl Haines and Jackie von Treskow of the For-Site Foundation, alongside artists including Do Ho Suh, Trevor Paglen and Bill Viola.