Peynir / Cheese // Tekinsiz Oyunlar / Uncanny Games
The girl was tree years old. One day she got bored and entered the room where her grandmother slept. The room was empty. The bed was unmade. The book that was read before dinner every afternoon was standing next to the clock on the bed stand. She picked it up along with the headscarf and the prayer beads on the pink pillow and sat on the bed. After settling down carefully, she covered her head with the scarf just like her grandmother did. She placed the white, flower – patterned pillow smoothly on her lap, covering her legs entirely. She put the book on the pillow and held it in her palms. Without noticing she was being watched, she began to mutter as if she was reading it; shaking her head from right to left just like her grandmother does. A sudden voice said, ‘’ I caught you!’’ The girl smiled : ‘’ Cheeeeese…’’.
SERGİ: TEKİNSİZ OYUNLAR // UNCANNY GAMES // September 13 – October 28
Pg Art Gallery was founded 18 years ago by Pırıl Güleşçi Arıkonmaz. Since then it has constantly worked to put together new artistic events.. In September and October, the gallery will be presenting contemporary art for viewers in an extraordinary space with a comprehensive exhibition project. Instead of the sterilized atmospheres of regular galleries, the exhibition will be held in the historic Tahtakale Hamam, a location in harmony with the architectural spirit of İstanbul. Sponsored by the (fashion label?) ROMAN, the event will be launched simultaneously with the İstanbul Biennial.Curated by Öznür Güzel Karasu, the exhibition brings together 22 artists from various disciplines, exploring different meanings of the concept of “game” through their works and delving into the processes of play that we encounter in every aspect of life. The various games we play essentially highlight the state of uncanniness in which we live. These include the games we play while dealing with our roles in the social order, the games we are exposed to in such an enormous system, our fictional games, the games of our childhood: cheerful games, games of partiality, cultural games, and games of perception. In the exhibition, art also becomes a tool for seeking a way out of the social machinery we are all born into, but the end of which is unclear. During these intellectual journeys sparked by instinct, we encounter equations related to the mind’s explorations.
Artists featured in the exhibition:
Özgül Arslan, Sena Başöz, Burak Bedenlier, Itır Demir, Eda Gecikmez, Nurcan Gündoğan, Reysi Kamhi, Devabil Kara, Hacer Kıroğlu, Komet, Devran Mursaloğlu, Günnur Özsoy, Neriman Polat, anti-pop, Gonca Sezer, Ayşegül Süter, Jerome Symons, Candaş Şişman, Kemal Tufan, Sevil Tunaboylu, Ayla Turan, İlke Yılmaz.
Tahtakale Hamamı
Uzunçarşı Cd. No: 329
Eminönü İstanbul
Soft City: Herşey Bizim İyiliğimiz İçindi // All This Was For Our Own Good // alanistanbul + alan dışı
Tatar Bey Sok. No:11, Galata // İstanbul
sergi: Yumuşak Şehir // Soft City
Yumuşak Şehir*
*Jonathan Raban’ın Yumuşak Kent isimli kitabından esinlenerek
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“İster beğenin, ister beğenmeyin, kent sizi kendisini yeniden yaratmaya, içinde yaşayabileceğiniz bir kalıba dökmeye davet eder. Kendinizi de. Kim olduğunuza bir karar verin, kent çevrenizde yine sabit bir biçim alacaktır. Onun ne olduğuna bir karar verin, bir nirengi noktasına göre çizilmiş bir harita gibi, sizin kimliğiniz ortaya çıkacaktır.
Köylerden ve küçük kasabalardan farklı olarak, yoğurulabilir olmak, kentlerin doğasından gelir. Onları kendi hakkımızdaki fikirlerimizle yoğururuz, biz onlara kendi kişisel biçimimizi dayattığımızda gösterdikleri dirençle onlar da bu kez bizi biçimlendirirler. Bu anlamda, bana öyle geliyor ki, kentte yaşamak bir sanattır. Kentsel yaşamın sürekli yaratıcı oyununda, insan ile madde arasındaki özel ilişkiyi betimlemede sanatın, uslubun sözlüğüne ihtiyaç vardır.
Hayal ettiğimiz biçimiyle kent, yanılsamaların, efsanelerin, özlemlerin, karabasanların yumuşak kenti, haritalarda ve istatistiklerde, kentsel sosyoloji, demografi ve mimari monografilerinde varolan katı kent kadar, hatta belki daha da fazla gerçektir.”
Jonathan Raban, Yumuşak Kent, London: Hamish Hamilton 1974
sanatçılar:
Alfredo Ramos Fernandez, Amandine Braci, Antonio Cosentino, Erdem Helvacıoglu, Erkin Gören, Gümüş Özdeş, Katarzyna Badach, Levent Kunt, Miriam Linschooten, Monika Bulanda, Merve Çanakçı, Neriman Polat, Nalan Yırtmaç, Murat Pulat, Pınar Ögrenci, Sameer Farooq, Sevil Tunaboylu, Sohrab Kashani, Şafak Çatalbaş, Timothée Huguet, Volkan Kaplan, Yeşim Akdeniz Graf, Zeynep Beler
küratör: nihan çetinkaya
