Ak-sayanlar

Kirkor Sahakoğlu & Tayfun Pirselimoğlu, Kemal Özen & Şebnem İşigüzel, Ferhat Özgür & Süreyyya Evren, Pınar Öğrenci & Fırat Demir iş birliğiyle, Ece Eldek & Emin Alper iş birliğiyle, Orhan Cem Çetin & Orhan Cem Çetin, Murat Palta & Gülfem Pamuk

11 March - 17 April 2021

Initiated by Art Unlimited, the “Ak-sayanlar” series is brought into the exhibition hall from the pages of the printed magazine in collaboration with x-ist. “Ak-sayanlar” is a mixed exhibition comprising eight works created by a total of 15 artists working in pairs and can be visited at x-ist between March 11 and April 17, 2021.

Published periodically by contemporary art magazine Art Unlimited since 2017, “Ak-sayanlar” aims to bring forth new collaborations and working practices born of the cooperation among artists from different fields. Centered around the question “How can we bring art together with various disciplines associated with art?”, the series is taken out of the magazine and transformed into an exhibition displayed in x-ist’s gallery space in order to bring its collaborations together and to examine the possibilities of interdisciplinary inspiration and forms of association.

Put together by Merve Akar Akgün and Çınar Eslek, the exhibition format of the “Ak-sayanlar” series at x-ist welcomes artist pairs of Ece Eldek and Emin Alper, Ferhat Özgür and Süreyyya Evren, Kemal Özen and Şebnem İşigüzel, Kirkor Sahakoğlu and Tayfun Pirselimoğlu, Murat Palta and Gülfem Pamuk, Neriman Polat and Sema Kaygusuz, and Pınar Öğrenci and Fırat Demir. Orhan Can partakes in the exhibition with a literary partner he created within himself.

Authors, directors, poets, and artists give a new shape to their conversations in the magazine with new questions, forms, and concepts for the exhibition with the space in mind. Scattered across the exhibition hall, eight different encounters evolve into either shared productions or separate works that evoke the conversation in the magazine. The individual experiences and partnerships of the participants and inter-conversational relations provide various intersections at the exhibition.

The interviews, screenings, and performances held as part of the exhibition aim to increase the number of possible intersections and to partake in the process of thinking with the audience/participants. The event program for this public exhibition can be found online at the social media accounts of x-ist and Unlimited Publications.

“Ak-sayanlar” can be visited at x-ist between March 11 and April 17, 2021.

Neither Audacity Nor Strength

Photogrametric video and stereo sound (7'); Objects of various dimensions in a wooden medicine cabinet; Text on a A5 sized paper, 50 inch screen, 30 x 40 x 12 cm

Confrontation

triptic, acrylic on metal, 234 x 120 cm

Kerr

Video loop, 25’ (detail), 30 inç ekran | 30 inch screen, 240 x 60 cm

New Horizons

Installation, Chalk paint on wall, chalk, racks, objects and photographes, 200 x 390 cm

An Object with Look

Oil on canvas, mixed material, 40 x 50 cm

Untitled

Drawing on tea napkin, writing on paper, 25 x 25 cm (with frame; 59 x 49 cm), 10 pieces letters, 38 x 260 cm (each: 24 x 18 cm)

New Horizons

Installation, chalk paint on wall, chalk, racks, objects and photographes, 200 x 390 cm, detail

Untitled

Drawing on tea napkin, writing on paper, 25 x 25 cm (with frame; 59 x 49 cm), 10 pieces letters, 38 x 260 cm (each:24 x 28 cm)

Untitled

Drawing on tea napkin, writing on paper, 25 x 25 cm (with frame; 59 x 49 cm), 10 pieces letters, 38 x 260 cm (each: 24 x 18 cm)

39 Namesakes and Kavgam Yumurta

Installation ( video loop (1') and wall writing), 32 inç ekran | 32 inch screen, 240 x 60 cm

The Rajm Event

3 pieces miniature, mono print on fine art paper (each; 30 x 30 cm), text on craft paper, various dimensions

The Rajm Event

3 pieces miniature, mono print on fine art paper (each; 30 x 30 cm), text on craft paper, various dimensions

The Rajm Event

3 pieces miniature, mono print on fine art paper (each; 30 x 30 cm), text on craft paper, various dimensions

The Rajm Event

3 pieces miniature, mono print on fine art paper (each; 30 x 30 cm), text on craft paper, various dimensions, 2021, detail

Tail

Installation, fabric of different kinds, hanger, text:Emin Alper, (Dubbing: Ceren Menekşedağ, Özgün Çoban), 170 x 250 cm

Supreme Penalty

Video installation (6;50') with sewed paper tissues, metal hengar, rope, poem, 5 ed. + 2 AP, 250 x 550 cm

Supreme Penalty

Video installation (6;50') with sewed paper tissues, metal hengar, rope, poem, 5 ed. + 2 AP, 250 x 550 cm

Tail

Ece Eldek in collaboration with Emin Alper Fail, Installation; fabric of different kinds, hanger, stereo, 170 x 250 cm, 2021 Installation: Ece Eldek, Dialogue Text: Emin Alper, (Dubbing: Ceren Menekşedağ, Özgün Çoban) (detail)

Supreme Penalty

Pınar Öğrenci in collabration with Fırat Demir Video installation (6:50') with sewed paper tissues, metal hengar, rope: Pınar Öğrenci, poem: Fırat Demir, 3 ed. + 2 AP, 250 x 550 cm, detail

39 Namesakes and Kavgam Yumurta

Installation ( video loop (1') and wall writing), 32 inch screen, 240 x 60 cm