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Europe XXL, Exhibition Istanbul Traversée
exhibition commisaire: Caroline Naphegyi
Palais des Beaux Arts de Lille, France
15-03/12-07-2009
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Please, Help Yourself, Ceren Oykut, drawing for the site-specific installation
(7 pictures designed for the windows approx 17 m2 each)digital print on transparent paper, 2009
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Plesase, Help Yourself, detail from the installation, Palais des Beaux Arts de Lille, France, 2009
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In 2007, during the work of the railway tunnel linking the Asian side of the Bosporus to the European continent on both sides, we discovered the remains of a commercial port and ancient fortifications dating back to the time of Constantine. This discovery is major. On the one hand, for what it reveals about Istanbul’s relationship with the Mediterranean basin, and on the other hand, for what it reveals the historical layers that found it – Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman. As if his past had resurfaced, sediments laid bare, what history had tried to erase through conquests and natural disasters. A megalopolis of 14 million inhabitants, Istanbul reveals the incessant lines of fracture between two extremes (West and East), between secularism and religion, modernity and tradition. The exhibition presented at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille invites you to cross the layers of its history, its radical transformations, from the Byzantine Empire to the Kemalist revolution. We discover its multiple facets, the interstices of a city dedicated to the mixing of genres, where thwarted identities, resistance to moral order, extreme tensions and humor tinged with absurdity, poetry and fragility coexist. International, Turkish and diaspora artists tell us about this city-matrix, in perpetual development.
Artists: Haluk Akakce, Hüseyin Alptekin, Kutlug Ataman, Bashir Borlakov, Osman Bozkurt, Hussein Chalayan, Burak Delier, Atom Egoyan, Cevdet Erek, Köken Ergun, Inci Eviner, Katja Eydel, Erik Göngrich, Deniz Gül, Ara Güler, Ali Kazma, Servet Kocyigit, Corey Mc Corkle, Antoine Ignace Melling, Aydan Murtezaoglu, Ceren Oykut, Sener Özmen and Erkan Özgen, Serkan Özkaya, Camila Rocha, Sarkis, Turhan Selçuk, Erinç Seymen, Superpool, HaleTenger, Pinar Yolaçan, Aksel Zeydan
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