Merge Field

Istanbul, Passion, Joy, Fury, Curated by Hou Hanru and Ceren Erdem
MAXXI, Rome, Italy, 11-12 2015/08-05- 2016
Participants: Hamra Abbas, Can Altay & Jeremiah Day, Halil Altındere, Emrah Altınok, Architecture For All (Herkes İçin Mimarlık), Volkan Aslan, Fikret Atay, Atelier Istanbul: Arnavutköy, Vahap Avşar, İmre Azem & Gaye Günay, Osman Bozkurt, Angelika Brudniak & Cynthia Madansky, Hera Büyüktaşçıyan, Antonio Cosentino, Burak Delier, Cem Dinlenmiş, Cevdet Erek, İnci Eviner, Extrastruggle, Nilbar Güreş, Ha Za Vu Zu, Emre Hüner, Ali Kazma, Sinan Logie & Yoann Morvan, Networks of Dispossession, Nejla Osseiran, Ceren Oykut, Pınar Öğrenci, Ahmet Öğüt, Didem Özbek, Şener Özmen, PATTU, Didem Pekün, Zeyno Pekünlü, Mario Rizzi, Sarkis, SO?, Superpool, ŞANALarc, Ali Taptık, Serkan Taycan, Cengiz Tekin, Güneş Terkol, Nasan Tur

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Merge Field ,(2015, Acrylic on wall, 3x17m Ceren Oykut)
A mural and a site-specific installation commissioned by MAXXI, is actually a workspace setting up a collection of short daily stories. Oykut composes, decomposes and sometimes overlaps her drawings, which are taken from small size papers. They appear and disappear along the exhibition space. Panning the picked details of daily moments, she connects Istanbul and Rome in a communal space.

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