The Photographers’ Gallery Istanbul will host the group exhibition “Borderline”, featuring the work of up-and-coming artists, from Friday 5 May through Saturday 10 June. The exhibition is curated by Sennur Onan. Featured photographers include M. Cevahir Akbaş, Yasin Akgül, Aslı Çelikel, Bekir Dindar, Dinçer Dökümcü, Çağdaş Erdoğan, Mehveş Leliç, Nazlı Tuhera Moral, Can Tanrıseven, İsmail Tarhan, Furkan Temir, and Erdem Varol.
From the organizer:
In an exhibition titled “Borderline,” The Photographers’ Gallery Istanbul has brought together the work of emerging artists previously featured in the gallery.
The exhibition includes work by M. Cevahir Akbaş, Yasin Akgül, Aslı Çelikel, Bekir Dindar, Dinçer Dökümcü, Çağdaş Erdoğan, Mehveş Leliç, Nazlı Tuhera Moral, Can Tanrıseven, İsmail Tarhan, Furkan Temir and Erdem Varol.
Curated by Sennur Onan, the show will open with a reception on Friday, May 5th and may be visited until June 10.
M. Cevahir Akbaş plays memory games against his own consciousness in his series, “Dilemma,” and turns the memories of others into his own. He redetermines the limits of the most striking details of undated found images in a way that he controls, thus including himself in the memories of others.
Yasin Akgül joins the exhibition with a series on Kobane, which has completely been destroyed during the Syrian civil war. The images, which were taken in 2015, focuses on the curtains hung throughout the city’s streets to be protected from snipers.
The exhibition will present a selection of works from Aslı Çelikel, marked by simplicity and somberness and made with great attention to color and illustrative detail.
Bekir Dindar contributes his “Ada” (Island) series on the unfinished night of a group of friends, whose lives were forever changed ten years ago when an unexpected accident hit at a morning swimming trip to the Prince’s Islands after a fun night, forever changing their lives.
A deep sadness and pessimism dominates Dinçer Dökümcü’s work, for which he employs two different media: photography and painting. He says of his work that he looks for the freedom of an unborn child but instead settles for the virtual happinesses the socioeconomic system delivers to a life lived descending into a black hole.
The exhibition features photographs from Çağdaş Erdoğan’s Night Blind series, which in turn belongs to a larger body of work on ghettos – the safe haven of people otherized by urban renewal projects targeting faith groups and as a result of political pressures.
Mehveş Leliç contributes four photographs from her series, “One.” Mehves explores the relationship of the subject of photographs and their environment, especially within the context of singularity and time. Doing so she creates counterfactual and semi-fictional relationships between her subjects and their surroundings.
On her series, “Nobody, Nowhere,” Nazli Tuhera Moral says that she turns her characters into nothingness and her characters into emptiness or ghosts, just like the many people who are reduced to numbers in reports and death certificates.
Can Tanrısever elaborates on her pinhole series, titled “sidpa pardo,” by saying, “Life takes up too much of our time; photography is a manner of keeping inventory for mortals.”
People trying to escape the chaos of the city must create a calm and peaceful place for themselves in order to preserve their spiritual balance. However, once they follow the pace of urban life, they will witness events that won’t allow such preservation. Ismail Tarhan has created a space for these free individuals with his work on the ground and the sky.
Furkan Temir joins the exhibition with a black and white series on the human body, which he abstracts using unique storytelling methods.
The exhibition’s final artist is Erdem Varol, whose series “It is as if we share a dream” represents a visual diary that may be interpreted through daily experiences and feelings. Varol dedicated this work to Edgar Allan Poe.
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Tuesday – Saturday: 11:30 – 19:00
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info@istanbul-fotografgalerisi.com
All images courtesy of the gallery.
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