“Critical Shifts,” a group exhibition on displacement is curated by Maria Korolkova,Margarita Osepyan, and Kate Umnova. The group of 22 participating Turkish and International artists are Greta Alfaro, Rong Bao, Burçak Bingöl, Gülizar Çepoğlu, Marjolijn Dijkman, Sinem Dişli, FRAUD, Jim Hobbs, Merve İşeri, Saodat Ismailova, Ege Kanar, Jiabao Li, Marie-Luce Nadal, Kerem Ozan Bayraktar, Yağiz Özgen, Julien Prévieux, Sümer Sayin, Pip Thornton,Dimitri Venkov, Emma Waltraud Howes and Cansu Yıldıran.
The shift is interperted in many ways, it includes experiences, perspectives, and diverse approaches to methodologies and philosophies of displacement that go beyond familiar paradigms. “Displacement of people and matter may have become a common place within contemporary artistic and social context, yet most often it is associated with challenging conditions of migration or colonial extraction. With “Critical Shifts” we propose to go beyond the fractures and dislocations into the possibilities of the new, when the shifted and the displaced is celebrated in its creativity and acknowledged as the new constant”, – the curatorial team.
Issue 66, December 2023
Turkey’s Centenary Issue
