Fotoğraf | Photo: Murat Germen
Bosphorus Tour
2014-2015
2.82 x 12.20 m
Embroidery-paint and sound arrangement on found and printed fabric
Sound: Ah! Kosmos
Acknowledgments:
Ayşenur Arslanoğlu, Umut Yıldırım, Ah! Kosmos, Ayşe İlkin, Nermin Er, Gizem Aksu
The images referencing perceptions of the past and future of the city are added to the motifs on the cloth visually and aurally. They disrupt the original spectacle depicted on the cloth by rearranging them in line with today’s references. They imitate the multi-layered structure of the city. This section, which represents the city, is a space of confrontations where in an iterative mode fear, loss and insecurity is voiced and turned into our homes. It is an open, fluid space where old habits are disintegrated. It is both a woman and a man.
The fabric that constitutes the second part is a reproduction of a photo dating from 2013 of a rocky location where explosions were conducted in order to open up a construction site. It is the visual representation of a structure that only resembles and begets itself. Today’s political processes can be characterized as a destructive internal conflict that has a tendency to only produce and procure itself. It represents the anxiety that accompanies the transformation of the established order, loss of control and ebbs and flows. It is the picture of a solid, closed, mumbling structure that is imploding.
The images accumulated during the working process emerged alongside poetic texts that reflect the affects and sounds of the city. Works like carpets depicting miniatures that contain images and messages of their era were often the sources of inspiration.
The sounds that were created by Ah! Kosmos constituted the aural motifs of the work. Motifs belonging to the city display the scenes constructed with embroidery and paint, the view of the rocks that was produced as a fabric represents an authoritarian voice that dominates. The sounds are an affective map of the work, they can be heard as footnotes that determine the rhythm of the fabric."
Deatils Bosphorus Tour, Exhibition "Spaceliner" Arter, İstanbul
SPACELINER
15 May – 2 August 2015
Curator: Barbara Heinrich
Arter, Istanbul
Artists: Peter Anders, Sandra Boeschenstein, Pip Culbert, İnci Eviner, Monika Grzymala, Nic Hess, Gözde İlkin, Harry Kramer, Pauline Kraneis, Hans Peter Kuhn, Zilla Leutenegger, Pia Linz, Christiane, Löhr, Ulrike Mohr, Jong Oh, Nadja Schöllhammer, Heike Weber
"Spaceliner" is a group exhibition that focuses on the relationship between drawing and space. In an attempt to examine the stylistic vocabulary of contemporary drawing, the exhibition illustrates working methods and approaches of drawing through the works of 17 artists.
All the works presented in "Spaceliner" start from a mode of thinking rooted in drawing, which differentiates the artistic results here from spatial installations in general. This approach manifests itself in both the choice of materials as well as in their use. Above all, however, it is manifested in the works' graphic intensity and how the lines are used in, and with, the space. Thus, the works reflect on the one hand a persistent attempt to fathom the epistemological quality of the medium of drawing. On the other, the aspect of motion is substantially integrated into the works' conception, which leads to a fundamental discussion of the tension between spatial image and actual experience in space. All the works move in the transitional zones between lines drawn and the actual physical spatial environment, and all are concerned with both the constructed spaces we live in as well as with visions of interiority.
The exhibition thus attempts to prove the potential of drawing, as a contemporary means of expression, to push ahead the development of new visual ideas by means of extraordinary methods and material.
"Spaceliner" is a group exhibition that focuses on the relationship between drawing and space. In an attempt to examine the stylistic vocabulary of contemporary drawing, the exhibition illustrates working methods and approaches of drawing through the works of 17 artists.