KAYIPTA SAKLI-HIDDEN IN LOSS
"Sadece yaşama değil ölüme de, sadece geleceğe değil geçmişe de uzanıyor bakışı. İnsan hayatı ve onuru için sadece yaşamı ve umudu değil, kaybı ve yası da tesis etmek zorunda olduğumuzu hatırlatıyor. Arzu Yayıntaş, Canan, Evrim Kavcar, Fulya Çetin, Nalan Yırtmaç ve Neriman Polat"
“Hidden in Loss” is an exhibition about staying alive. It has vital
concerns about being able to breathe in the atmosphere of organized evil
that has descended upon us; that is choking us. Its gaze extends not
only to life but also to death, not only to the future but also the
past. It reminds us that for human life and dignity we must institute
not just life and hope but also loss and mourning. It reserves, despite
everything, the hope for a life where those who have been mourning for
centuries, and those who have not been allowed to mourn, and those who
refuse to mourn can come together, that is, it reserves the hope for
peace.
In order not to fall from the edge of “loss” into the abysmal void, Arzu Yayıntaş, CANAN, Evrim Kavcar, Fulya Çetin, Nalan Yırtmaç and Neriman Polat have come side by side with the urgency of talking, remembering, telling, sharing and connecting. Knowing what it means to lose someone has brought them together. From tragedies of the past, they have heard both the breath of lives awaiting salvation for centuries and the laments that were never sung for the dead who could not be buried. They found each other under the burden of the banned mournings of people whom no law protects. They are asking, “Why can’t some deaths be mourned as real and significant losses? Why are only certain pains legitimate, only certain losses real? How is it possible that some people are ‘expendable’; they can just be killed?”
Six women are talking about faces lost and gone, memories, places,
nature, innocence and conscience. Looking for something hidden in the
loss. They are asking each other what it is that we lose and acquire
with each loss, how losses change us forever. Yes, they are talking
about those who are no longer alive, cannot be named, represented,
comprehended, conveyed, and therefore irredeemable. Yet their eternal
absence sets the limits of finite existence. For those who survive, pain
and meaning and hope all breathe in the nooks of “loss”.Ezgi Bakçay
In order not to fall from the edge of “loss” into the abysmal void, Arzu Yayıntaş, CANAN, Evrim Kavcar, Fulya Çetin, Nalan Yırtmaç and Neriman Polat have come side by side with the urgency of talking, remembering, telling, sharing and connecting. Knowing what it means to lose someone has brought them together. From tragedies of the past, they have heard both the breath of lives awaiting salvation for centuries and the laments that were never sung for the dead who could not be buried. They found each other under the burden of the banned mournings of people whom no law protects. They are asking, “Why can’t some deaths be mourned as real and significant losses? Why are only certain pains legitimate, only certain losses real? How is it possible that some people are ‘expendable’; they can just be killed?”
IFLAH OLMAZ -IMPENITENT
“İflah Olmaz” kadınlık üzerine bir sergi ama kadınlığı tanımlamayı ya da bir çerçeveye oturtmayı hedeflemiyor, aksine keskin tanımlamaları sorguluyor. Bu sergi kadın ve erkek arasındaki bildik hikayeyi bozan, üzerine zorla yapıştırılan adları ve kimlikleri silkinip atan kadınlara kadınlık üzerine beraber düşünmeye ve birlikte güçlenmeye bir çağrı.Yeşim Ağaoğlu, Gizem Aksu, Sena Başöz, Deniz Bilgin, Banu Birecikligil, CANAN, Fulya Çetin, Elif Varol Ergen, Nurcan Gündoğan, Gülsün Karamustafa, Ayşegül Özmen, Neriman Polat, Necla Rüzgar, Aydın Teker, Sevil Tunaboylu, Arzu Yayıntaş, Nalan Yırtmaç ve Zulal
“Impenitent” is an exhibition about feminity, but it does not intend to define or put the feminity in a frame, but rather it questions strict characterizations. This exhibition is actually a calling to think about feminity and get stronger together, for women who spoil the usual story of women and men, shake off all those descriptions, names and identities attached to them against their wills.
The exhibition is formed of art works made by women who search for their truths and deny to “Be Penitent.” There are works telling about women who question social gender codes, define feminity over and over again every single day, protect their own freedom and bodies, keep fighting against oppressions and restrictions of the power. In other words, “Impenitent” is an exhibition in which women denying feminity role assigned by male-dominant system and going after their dreams and desires tell about feminity. The exhibition provides an approach that embraces woman’s body, fantasies, dark side, imagination, freedom, fighting spirit, life power, fertility, sexuality and contradictions instead of victimhood./Ark Galeri-Bursa.I did a workshop questioning gender codes.
UYKUSUZLAR ATLASI
Halka Sanat Projesi’nin
Moda’da bulunan galeri mekanı uyku kavramından hareketle
yaşadığımız tarihte ve coğrafyada üzerinde durup, düşünülmesi gereken
uyku metaforları üzerine yoğunlaşıyor.İpek Çankaya’nın kavramsal
çerçevesini oluşturduğu Uykusuzlar Atlası’nın araştırdığı biraz da
uykularda geçen zamanın ya da uyuyamama halinin insanı başka duygu
durumlarından, başka buluşmalardan, başka ruhsal ve zihinsel
arayışlardan alıkoyup koymadığı ve uykusuzların hangi uğraşlara dalıp
uykulara direndikleri gibi soruların yanıtları. Bu araştırmalar
izleyiciye video, resim, yerleştirme, heykel ve fotoğraf gibi araçlarla
aktarılıyor.
Niyazi Selçuk, Neriman Polat, Orhan Cem Çetin, Seçil Yersel, Doğu
Çankaya, Sezgi Abalı, Şafak Şule Kemancı, İskender Giray, Mert Öztekin,
Sevil Tunaboylu, Nalan Yırtmaç, Fulya Çetin, Gümüş Özdeş, Yasemin Nur
Erkalır, Ekin İdiman ve Neşe Şahin
