SALT welcomes the summer with three new exhibitions at its three venues.
The “Every Choice is Exclusion of the Other Possibilities” exhibition at SALT Beyoğlu, brings together three special collections and intends to build a critical dialogue environment on the choices in this field with the interest and enthusiasm to collect works of art.
The exhibition, in dialogue with three collectioners ad collections, composed of domestic and international works trying to work as an intermediary between the art practices during the last 10 years and the individual explorations and researches as aimed for these, offers a selection from the choices by the collectioners that may be identified as “powerful” and “brave”. These collections also includes works that use instruments such as video, sound, book, film and slides, which are difficult to be exhibited in the home or office environment. Most of the works have contents that are believed to be of the type that will generally not be bought by any collectioner. The works at the exhibition bring together the works from the collections of Bilge and Haro Cümbüşyan, Ayşe ve Saruhan Doğan, Tüten and Agah Uğur.
Prior to the exhibition that will cover two stories at the SALT Beyoğlu and will be opened on June 9; a preview will be organized during April 21 – May 17 at the Forum Area in SALT Beyoğlu. Within the scope of the multilayered exhibition, that primarily reflect the interests of collectioners on audio-visual works, also personal presentations on the issues handled by the project and shows at the Open Cinema at SALT Beyoğlu will be organized.
Meanwhile “Onlar/They”, that can be viewed at SALT Galata during April 28 – June 28, is a multi-channel video installation by İpek Duben, on looking at the “others” in Turkey and the perception of the others by the “other”. The exhibition brings together the narratives of 23 individuals of different ethnic origins, languages, faiths and identities. The installation consists of two separate areas, with three video projections in each, and a series of projections located as independent of these. They attempts to create a dialogue environment between individuals whose opportunity to communicate with each other is quite limited or who will never be able to find such an opportunity. Uninterrupted monologues, where each character tells his own story, speeches in various languages mix with each other and create polyphony.
On the other hand, during April 14 – June 6 at SALT Ulus, the work titled “A Possible History” by Esra Ersen exhibited in Turkey for the first time and the “Casting for a Canary Opera” share two stories of the venue with the “Escape from Marmara Sea” by Antonio Cosentino. The installations designed by the artists as based on language, time and place; take the viewers on a journey full of geography and literature references.
“Marmara’dan Kaçış / Escape from
Marmara Sea”, Antonio Cosentino
