The Istanbul of Zamane exhibition, which brings together the contemporary visual narratives of Istanbul, continues to meet art lovers at Pera Museum. Opened to the public in December at the Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation Pera Museum, Zamane Istanbulites exhibition brings together the recent works of 11 photographers under different themes.
A photography exhibition consisting of works by Silva Bingaz, Osman Bozkurt, Ci Demi, Kıvılcım S. Güngörn, Ekin Özbiçer, Emin Özmen, Ahmet Sel, Ali Taptık, Kerem Uzel, Erdem Varol, Cansu Yıldıran, the artists' practice of interpreting the city as a personal interaction space. and a group of writers who research, think and produce fictions about Istanbul, while bringing up the extraordinary and yet ordinary oddities that we encounter on the streets of Istanbul; The texts written by Yaşar Adnan Adanalı, Fırat Genç, Şebnem İşigüzel, Melisa Keskin, Biray Koloğlu, N. Gamze Toksoy and Sibel Yardimci add an important layer to both the exhibition and the exhibition catalogue.
A closer look at the artists and their work
Interpreting Istanbul as a personal experience area, Silva Bingaz tries to make the audience reflect what she feels by acting with her intuition, rather than taking things as they are and creating photographs stuck in forms.
Osman Bozkurt looks at the relatively new recreation areas of Istanbul, the rural aesthetics that dominated the city, the unsustainable urban landscapes and the relationships people form with these areas.
A true Istanbul photographer, Ci Demi focuses on the familiar quirks of Istanbul in all her work and pursues the energy she describes as sinister.
Kıvılcım S. Güngörn, who wanders the streets and collects volatile pieces of Istanbul, some of which will disappear in a short time, in his work that brings these together, reveals the somewhat gloomy, somewhat playful, but always shaped relationship with the city.
Ekin Özbiçer visualizes the social and political changes Turkey has undergone in the last 10-15 years, with an orientalist view to both herself and the city, with spontaneous mise-en-scènes she encounters on the streets of Istanbul.
Emin Özmen's work consists of photographs that pursue social mobility in the city from the Gezi Resistance, which is an important touchstone both in Istanbul's urban memory and in recent Turkish history.
Ahmet Sel takes place in Zamane Istanbuls with his works specially produced for the exhibition, which deals with the issue of 'migration', which has been a much-discussed agenda item both in Turkey and in Istanbul in recent years.
Ali Taptik, Structural transformation of Istanbul in the neighborhoods where the middle-lower class settled around Galata, Keçi and Cendere streams in the Kağıthane and Şişli border region, which had remained relatively "natural" until recently, but developed rapidly in recent years; He tells about current photographs, some frames from his old series, maps obtained from the archives of various institutions and on which he has made minor changes.
Kerem Uzel, who has been documenting the social change in Turkey for more than twenty years, takes his place in Zamane Istanbuls with the photographs he took on the route of the Kanal Istanbul project, which has created a great political and ecological debate and will connect the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara.
Erdem Varol, who does not hesitate to get as close as possible to the animate/inanimate subjects he encounters on the streets of Istanbul and "shine" them with the light of his flash, takes part in the exhibition with a selection that visualizes, in a witty language, Istanbul's tornado between East and West, tradition and modernity, crowds and solitude.
The Istanbul of Zamane exhibition will be open to visitors until 17 September 2023 in the 3rd floor exhibition hall of Pera Museum. It can be visited from Tuesday to Saturday between 10.00:19.00 and 12.00:18.00, and on Sundays between 18.00:22.00 and XNUMX:XNUMX. In addition, all visitors will be able to visit the museum free of charge on Fridays between XNUMX and XNUMX within the scope of "Long Friday", and on Wednesdays as part of "Young Wednesday".