Exhibition
Meriç Algün: Day Craving Night
28 Sep 2019 – 08 Dec 2019
Spike Island
Bristol, United Kingdom
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Max McClure Spike Island Autumn 2019 Meriç Algün
Talk
Talks | Meriç Algün - Art In The City
23 Oct 2019
Regular hours
- Wed, 23 Oct
- 18:00 – 19:00
Cost of entry
£4 + BF
Address
- 16 Narrow Quay
- Bristol, BS1 4QA
- Bristol
England - BS1 4QA
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Most city centre bus services stop within walking distance of Arnolfini. The nearest stops are at The Centre and Queen Square.
- Arnolfini is a 15 minute walk from Bristol Temple Meads railway station. A taxi rank can be found outside the station.
Event map
UWE Bristol & Arnolfini present Meriç Algün discussing desire, separation and boundaries - the themes of her exhibition Day Craving Night. Introduced by Spike Island curator Carmen Juliá.
About
Over the last decade, Meriç Algün has developed a body of work that is deeply rooted in her experience of migrating from Istanbul to Stockholm. The contrasting differences of both cities, particularly socially and politically, as well as her move between the two, played a key role in the development of her early works, which explored how identity is constructed in relation to migration.
For her current exhibition at Spike Island, Day Craving Night, Algün presents a series of new and recent works that explore the precarious nature of love and the environment in a world that is obsessed with individualism, borders and consumption. In the face of global warming and the extinction of life forms, alongside the rise of all kinds of constructed negative isms such as racism, terrorism, separatism or consumerism, Algün's exhibition evokes the idea of togetherness under threat. Gathering a wide range of sources from the Carboniferous period to today, Day Craving Night takes the form of a spatial collage and draws analogies between love, nature and culture.
Meriç Algün
Meriç Algün (b. 1983, Istanbul) is an artist based in Stockholm. She studied at the Sabanci University, Istanbul, and later at the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm. Algün has held many solo exhibitions in Europe and has participated in numerous international biennials such as SALTWATER: A Theory of Thought Forms, 14th Istanbul Biennial (2015), Between the Pessimism of the Intellect and the Optimism of the Will, 5th Thessaloniki Biennial (2015), All the World's Futures, 56th Venice Biennale (2015), Leaving to Return, 12th Bienal de Cuenca, Ecuador (2014), You Imagine What You Desire, 19th Sydney Biennial (2014).
