Even though one rejects, almost everyday s/he faces with the hues of nationalism, religion; differences between cultures, nations, continents. Art, however, may be one of the few notions that connects people regardless of the knowledge that there is me and the other. Art is the focus point that is forcing...
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Ankara, the capital city of Turkey, has been dealing with cultural (im)migration to Istanbul or other centers of the world, especially to Europe despite the harsch immigration policies and visa procedures of EU. This city is full of talented artists, writers, art historians, thinkers, musicians, act-resses/ors but unfortunately because...
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Istanbul is the beauty hidden in chaos. The man selling the spices is shouting. Taks und/and tocks of the feverish shoes pass by. It is time to hear the sound of imam that is hidden in the walls of the mosque. Smell of fishes and mosses. Smell of sea. The smell...
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A body inside a white long box, a rectangular prism stays diagonally in the space. Only parts of it –breast and popo – can be seen. Making one wonder if there is a real body inside or those parts that we see are just silicone. ‘The sculpture’ containing a human body...
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Future Anectodes, is a graphic design studio, originally founded in London by Aslı Altay and Mary Ikoniadou. Since 2011, Aslı Altay has been running the studio, Future Anectodes Istanbul on one of the uphills of Beyoğlu-İstanbul by herself. Altay’s book project, also named as Future Anectodes, is in the Artist’s...
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Paris… The city of 1789, 1848 and 1968; ‘courtesan’s, Salons and cafés where the myth of Bohemian artist emerged. On the streets of this magical city, the characters of Baudelaire − the flaneur, the dandy, the whore − walked around/trembled as the symbols of modern city dwellers. Some...
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