Pera Museum is hosting selected works from the workshops of the 6th International Student Triennial in collaboration with Marmara University Faculty of Fine Arts between August 6 and September 22, 2013.
It’s Yours if You Resist is a workshop of images of the Gezi protests by 14 fine art students, most of postcard size, on strings across the room, at eye level, an ‘in your face’ response. One wall shows agonizing black-and-white video montage of an injured man lying prone on the pavement. The photographs range from a simple shot of the Taksim metro stop, barricaded with wood and bars of metal, to a man clinging to a traffic light amid jets of water.
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Bridges over the Bosphorus is an exploration of mobility, and the “suppression of sensation” in a multi-cultural city. The stand-out work was Building a New City, a ‘video tutorial’ by Can Kurucu. In this graphic animation, a bridge and motorway across a waterway resembling the Bosphorus leads to new building plastered across green space: sky scrapers, parking lots, factories are dropped down like a video game, in a witty transformation. (see Pera Museum Blog.)
In Connecting the Dots on the Body, students of various art forms used the body as a tool to express sculptural ideas. In Tüketim (Consumption), by Ahyan Mutlu, blue-bottle flies have settled on a man’s face. In Isimsiz (Untitled), by Derya Kazan, the photographs show a line of red peppers making a fringe along the smooth skin of a girl’s face. The images were striking, the message a little unclear.
Sharing Public Space: Istanbul Dogs documents a public space project using stencils to draw attention to the right to life of street dogs in Istanbul. Simple, Banksy-like spray stencils of dogs appear alongside short messages, like Children: Why are you afraid of Us? (Cocuklar: Neden Bizden Korkuyor?).
Main Illustration:Sharingh Public Space. Stencil design: Hazal Arslantaş, Doğukan Karapınar. Workshop leaders: Ahu Antme, Didem Dayı