Hi Denizhan,
How are you? Hope everything is going OK. I think that you are getting ready for your show in London. Am I right? I had participated in a group show this year, in 2009 in London, Cafe Gallery Projects. The title of the show was “Make, Shift and Bend”. I had my video “Tinica” in the exhibition. Tinica shows a young man standing on a hill overlooking Batman. He prepares e a makeshift drum set by using old bins, plastics bottles. He is drumming, it is like a performance to nobody or if you want to the city that seems indifferent. When his performance is finished, he kicks the drum set. We watch the bins and bottles rolling down the slope and finally the boy throwing the drumsticks to the distant city. May be you can remember it from Istanbul Biennial.
And to everybody who follows the dialogues and is curious about Turkish contemporary art production… If you are now in Berlin, I recommend you to visit the group exhibition “Not Easy to Save the world in 90 Days” in Tanas. The show brings together young Turkish artists who deal with their own background and the circumstances of life in Turkey and in the diaspora. Which is also very related to the concept of imagine art after because the show represents three types of artists: artists who live in Turkey, artists who live abroad (Amsterdam or Berlin) and artists who live in Diyarbakır (and Batman). It is a very successful overview for those who want to learn more about works of Turkish artists and the context.
