Portfolio Category: 2019

THE FINE KNIFE WE USED TO PARE AWAY THE ROUGH DAY

THE FINE KNIFE WE USED TO PARE AWAY THE ROUGH DAY
“Kaba günü yonttuğumuz ince bıçak”[1] is part of the dialog built by artists Elif Öner and Evrim Kavcar on hearing, listening, not hearing, not listening, making sounds, or making no sound at all. Öner and Kavcar focus on sound as spirit and the connection between sound and memory, underscore the psychological aspect of the exhibition…
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CLIMATE OF ANOTHER UNIVERSE

"CLIMATE OF ANOTHER UNIVERSE" Cengiz Tekin - Sedat Akdoğan Curator/Derya Yücel "We are trapped in a fault-line between incompatible worlds, worlds that mutually repel and deform one another"[1] Daryush Shayegan says that these fault-lines are our fate, which is unique to us and cannot be visited onto others. The author takes a historical and philosophical…
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RITUAL

RITUAL
Emin Mete Erdoğan / Hacer Kıroğlu / Kaan Fıçıcı   “We grow roots in rituals...”[1] Rituals, essentially collective practices, are among the key components of social integration as a cultural indicator due to their form and content. The repetitive and cyclical nature of rituals designed to ensure remembrance is claimed to fulfill its function of…
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FLOWER WOUND

FLOWER WOUND
FLOWER WOUND Neriman Polat / Nurcan Gündoğan 13.03. – 27.04. 2019 Kasa Gallery "Consumption in the commencement is easy to cure, and difficult to understand; but when it has neither been discovered in due time, nor treated upon a proper principle, it becomes easy to understand, and difficult to cure... The same thing happens in state affairs, by foreseeing…
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