Nadide Akdeniz has continued her artistic career in an uninterrupted manner since the early 1970s, and perhaps the most appropriate definition of her is “the green sorcerer of the great green world”[1]. Nadide Akdeniz constructs fairy-tale-like green landscapes that cross and intersect social, cultural, ecological, political and spiritual worlds. Her paintings display a refined sensibility,…
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SHOW ME COLOR
Semiha Berksoy / Marguerite Bornhauser / Çınar Eslek Curator: Yekhan Pınarlıgil If the body is really a shell to the self, an interface between the inner and outer worlds, or even a direct passage into the unexplored depths of the self, then maybe, all that fighting for it actually has a point. As Didier Anzieu…
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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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