Home Exhibition
May 2024
İSTANBUL
Home Exhibition was designed as an interdisciplinary gathering area, subsequently evolving into an Istanbul-based art project supported by open lectures, workshops, artist speeches and interactive performances. Approaching the “house” as a fresh look at the world, the body, the city and the other at a conceptual level, the project aims to have identities, objects, matters and rituals get together at the “house” in the most familiar sense and to achieve a meaning which gets augmented from house to house.
Comprising of collective art creations, Home establishes a narrative highlighting dualities such as local/global, settled/homeless, inside/outside, local/immigrant and safe/unsafe in the process of working on the climate, settlement, identity and body themes. Aiming to create liberating and recuperative areas, the project enable us to establish relations between different resources and perspectives while trying to suggest new life forms by way of critical representations of domestic and day-to-day behaviors. Accordingly, many fossilized passive structures are addressed, where social manifestation of personal experiences and collective memory gain prominence. Dynamics shaped around the sovereign, as well as occupancies, operation and destruction become the subject of the exhibition as undeniable aspects of said memory. Against such dynamics, Home aims to popularize the practice of non-violent resistance, in accordance with its collective practice and goal of existence.
The curatory approach, which prioritizes witnessing and experiencing of space in line with the house theme, incorporates works that have characteristics specific to the space and enable establishment of spatial relations. As part of said approach, a fresh look at the space is designed around the concepts of trust, comfort, weirdness, alienation and togetherness post space-human relationship, which was suspended during the pandemic.
Combining archival and fictional works, the exhibition endeavors to discuss nobilitation, environmental control, boundaries and ecologic issues with particular focus on Istanbul, while approaching “home” by means of both documentation and performative works, with a perspective of queer settlement, appointed/selected family, organization, woman status and domestic demographics.
“Home” invites visitors to build a collective house with an approach that is inclusive of all coalescing and dissociating subjects, in the light of the principle of non-censored expression and with an experiential artistic practice.
