Exhibition
The Other Is Not
13 May 2019 – 24 May 2019
Event times
The exhibition is on view from May 13-24, 2019 in the SEMII E4115 gallery space.
Opening reception: Monday May 13, 2019, 12:00pm-12:50pm at SEMII E4115.
Discussion panel with the artists: 1:00pm-3:00pm at the COM Recital Hall.
Cost of entry
Free and open to the community. Daily parking fee at The Evergreen State College is $3.00.
Address
- 2700 Evergreen Pkwy NW
- Olympia
Washington - 98505
- United States
The Evergreen State College is pleased to present, The Other Is Not, an exhibition and panel discussion featuring three Turkish-American visual artists, Gül Çağın, İlknur Demirkoparan, and Arzu Arda Koşar, whose works explore the nuances of identity, community, and difference.
About
The Evergreen State College presents The Other Is Not, an exhibition featuring three Turkish-American visual artists, Gül Çağın, İlknur Demirkoparan, and Arzu Arda Koşar, whose works explore the nuances of identity, community, and difference.Gül Çağın’s series of paperworks and paintings offer a poetic contemplation on identity, at once intricately personal and brutally susceptible. One of her works titled, Shapes of Silence That Make Noise, contemplates bodily affectability and materiality under dominant linguistic, economic and political forces. The work grasps the visceral and illusionary experiences of the body, shifting between the symbolic and the real, where meaning arrives as quickly as it dissolves.
İlknur Demirkoparan’s Hair is a Woman’s Glory features a series of digital prints, in which the artist’s expressive face is centered around a dark halo of calligraphic text that meticulously repeats the Turkish word for hair, saç. The spirited invitation to lock eyes with the woman whose uncontainable Medusa-like hair demands its own attention, gives a new spin on the demand for recognition.
Arzu Arda Koşar’s interactive map series titled Terra Incognita by Mapconception, draws inspiration from the ways psychological perceptions influence both the practice of mapping and the ideas around territorial ownership, community, and belonging. Preferring the participatory over the ready-made, Koşar’s piece continues the tradition of public, interactive art, wherein the subjects of representation are at the same time co-constitutive agents of their own stories.
Curated by Dr. Vuslat D. Katsanis, Faculty in Literary Arts and Media Arts & Studies.
Sponsored by The President’s Equity Fund at The Evergreen State College, and co-funded by the Media Arts & Studies Path. Additional contributions by: The German Program; Studio, Archive, Field; Unruly Bodies; Languages of Unsaying; and the Literary Arts Path.
