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Cansu Yıldıran | Shelter, 2018
Exhibition
Resource Utopia
14 Nov 2018 – 12 Jan 2019
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- Beybi Giz Plaza
- 34398 Maslak
- Istanbul
Istanbul - Turkey
Elgiz Museum presents Resource Utopia, an exhibition in collaboration with the GOETHE INSTITUT and NOKS Independent Art Space.
About
Elgiz Museum hosts a photography and video exhibition in pursuit of ideas for other utopias entitled “Resource Utopia”, in collaboration with Goethe Institut Istanbul, Pavlov’s Dog Gallery Berlin and NOKS Independent Art Space. Following a period of workshops, 13 artists from Turkey under the age of 40 will exhibit their photography and video works between 14 November 2018 - 12 January 2019. Inspired by the German philosopher Ernst Bloch’s ‘Principle of Hope’, the exhibition consists of the outcomes of three workshops that lasted for 8 months.
Artists Altay Tuz, Beril Ece Güler, Burak Dikilitaş, Cansu Yıldıran, Egemen Tuncer, Erhan Arık, Ezgi Tok, Larissa Araz, Murat Kahya, Müge Yıldız, Öykü Canlı, Serhat Kır and Sevinj Yusifova were selected by Michael Biedowicz (photo edior of ZEIT Magazine and founder of Pavlov’s Dog Art Gallery), Andreas Rost (curator and photographer) and artist Volkan Kızıltunç (co-founder of NOKS Independent Art Space).
The artists are invited to interpret utopia both as a source of inspiration and as a basis that intends to illuminate meta-realities that consist of visual stories, reflecting experiences that may become metaphors of future realities. Exploring the generated visual realities, the exhibition focuses on the present rather than the future, as it consists of mainly photography and video works. Almost like an expression tool, time-based mediums act as an analogy for the present moment with a possibility to be analyzed in the future.
