Portfolio Category: Past Exhibitions

“Impossible Space”

“Impossible Space”
Deniz Aktaş İhsan Oturmak Hasan Pehlevan   “Our story is the old clash between history and home. Or to put in another way, the immeasurable impossible space that seems to divide the hearth from the quest.” Jeanette Winterson The World and Other Places: Orion, Vintage, 2000   It is asserted that in all kinds of…
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18th Mediterranean/Road to Tirana…

18th Mediterranean/Road to Tirana…
18th Mediterranean / Road to Tirana… 18th International Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, will be held in the Albania city of Tirana in May 4-9, 2017. More than 300 artists will bring together in the event. Turkey selection of the Biennial was elected by a commission formed by the Sabancı University.…
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“Topography of Desire”

“Topography of Desire”
Seçil Büyükkan Alper Aydın Ali İbrahim Öcal Ali Şentürk   “Did you ever think an apple using you?”[1] This question of Michael Pollan alludes that human and botanic (nature) –which is thought to be tamed, domesticated, and changed under human domination– are perhaps together, actors of an evolutionary negotiation, hence the same dance: between human…
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…Because We Are Here Where We Are Not…

…Because We Are Here Where We Are Not…
…Because We Are Here Where We Are Not… Cities, peripheries, shells, walls, doors… the concept of the “place” that opens up onto different layers of time and space, not only defines life in the geographical, spatial, mental and existential sense via boundaries, but also connects it to the division of “inside and outside”. The traditional…
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