Trade Routes Artworks – Istanbul

Azadeh Akhlaghi

İran’da Süspansiyon / Suspension in Iran
Digital photograph / 39×50 cm / 2010

Volkan Aslan

Satıcılar / Dealers
10 adet çerçeveli desen, 28x21cm
10 framed drawings, 28x21cm
2011

Nancy Atakan

A series of digital images taken from a 1957 USA Television program “Father Knows Best”
2011

Father Knows Best
Seemingly innocent television programs are never innocent.  They influence values and identity formation. Today in our global environment, television programs made in Turkey or the USA or Europe or Japan or anywhere in the world travel from country to country and spread ideas and influence opinions.  As a child in the 1950s, I watched a television program, “Father Knows Best”. After choosing a program from the series conveying the message that engineering is an inappropriate profession for women, I translated each scene into Turkish and transformed one mode of popular exchange into another, a television program into a self-portrait type of photo roman.  For presentation, I used the silkscreen method, a traditional mode of reproduction highly popular in the 1950’s and 60’s in addition to the digital printing method, a contemporary mode of reproduction. To show the arbitrariness of value given to works of art, the ten limited edition silkscreen prints were for sale while the digital prints were given away.

Çerçeveli ipek baskı, 10 adet sınırlı edisyon
Silk prints framed, limited edition of 10
70 x 50cm
2011

Ofset baskı poster: ücretsiz / Posters offset print: free
2011

Sam Curtis

IKEA

Tek kanallı video, 2 dakika
Single channel video, 2 minutes loop
2008

Mehmet Dere

15.11.2010  VAN

The lower road on the small avenue seemed to meet a line, with a lengthy beginning, between Iran and Caldiran. The stacking of the cigarettes upon one another appeared to turn these packets into towers. I don’t know what seduced me then, but maybe it was ‘something/a sign’ that I hid inside myself ‘unkowing/aware’ that it would turn into something else. Life has a death-like symbolism of its own, it makes itself seen through its skill of turning us into a ‘thing’ which it sticks in its pocket to take out whenever necessary. Life presented this to me as one on the dull, gleaming, mocking, unimposing surfaces of the cigarette towers. One was multitude, and the same was different.

(KAPITAL&PRESTIGE)

18/01/2011 ISTANBUL

I was by myself that day in a friend’s studio. I lit the furnace and stretched out.

A while later, I got bored and and picked a book from the shelf. What I came up with was a catalogue of Warhol.  I remember staring at a page while browsing, and returning to it again and again. Something happened inside me that I couldn’t grasp. Perhaps in my eyes, it had the power of prophecy. Had I suddenly entered the world of Warhol? Without knowing what was happening, I had discovered the eternity that was transient in his world, just for once…Heaven and Hell were only a breath away…I was to recreate the work, and this I did with the life I was within, and the ever-changing visions of my life…love from Chirico..

(HEAVEN& HELL)

“Cennet & Cehennem” / Kolaj fotoğraf, Prestige & Capital Sigarası
50 x 70cm
“Heaven & Hell” / Photo Collage, Prestige & Capital Cigarettes
50 x 70cm

Carol Sabadinni

Kule / The Tower
Tek kanallı video, 2:3 dakika
Single channel video, 2:3 minutes loop
2010

Anna Heidenhain

what can you look at when you look up? and what do you want to see?

*You worked on a whole encyclopaedia…***

Yes, an encyclopaedia about the sky, a French book that I found in Istanbul. I wanted to connect the images of the sky and the stars with all areas of life, thus completing the encyclopaedia by placing images over the text. I therefore had to completely edit the book.

Gözden Geçirilmiş ve Güncellenmiş, Encyclopédie par l´image
Revised and Updated, Encyclopédie par l´image
Kolaj kitap /Book with collages
Dijital Baskı A3 / Digital print A3
2010

Borga Kantürk

Kolonyalizm Lezzetlidir / Colonialism is Delicious
Enstelasyon / Installation
Değişken boyutlar / Dimensions variable
2011

Sohrab Kashani

Ghoori

2 adet dijital fotoğraf, Tahran haritası, tek kanallı video, 11 dakika Değişken boyutlar
2 Digital photographs, map of Teheran, single channel video, 11 minute loop
Dimensions variable
2010

Cecilia Kinnear

Kamusal Alan / Özel Alan / Video Yerleştirmesi / Public Space / Private Space / Video Installation
CK Services Advert, tek kanallı video, 60 saniye / CK Services Advert, single channel video, 60 seconds loop
Trafalgar Square Performans, tek kanallı video, 8 dakika / Trafalgar Square Performance, single channel video, 8 minutes loop
2011

İz Öztat & Burcu Yançatarol Yağız

Özgürlük, Güvenlik, Adalet / Libertas, Securitas, Justitia
Fotoğraf / Photograph
100 x 66 cm
2010

Steven Paige

In Pietro Martire d’Anghiera’s essay De Orbe Novo (On the New World, 1530), he describes the first contacts of Europeans and Native Americans.

Yeni Dünyada / On the New World
Dijital baskı, kontrplak, 5adet sınırlı edisyon / Digital print on gazetteer paper, ply wood, series of 5
29 x 42 cm
2011

Oliver Sutherland

Commonly used in televised weather reports, Chroma keying is a technique for compositing two separate film scenes together. Typically, a colour is removed from one of the digitally layered scenes so that the film underneath is revealed. This technique often fails if a presenter accidentally wears or reflects similar colour as the Chroma Key.

Nothing for Chromakey
Tek kanallı video, Single channel video 8:09 dakika /minutes loop
2009
10 adet sınırlı edisyon / Limited edition 10

Mehmet Ali Uysal

Fotoğraf, polyester çerçeve
Değişken boyutlar / Photo, polyester frame
Dimension variable / 2011

Rebecca Weeks

Temel Seks Büyüsü / Basic Sex Magic
Ofset baskı, yaldızlı çerçeve, fotoğraf yerleştirmes/Offset print, c type photographs in gilt frame
80 x 80 cm
2011