Hera Büyüktaşcıyan Phantom Quartet — Kolektif

This book which accompanies Hera Büyüktaşcıyan s solo exhibition Phantom Quartet at Arter approaches the artist s practice whose core engagement revolves around the notions of invisibility cyclicality memory architecture the city and nature in a multi layered way Opening with an in depth conversation between the exhibition s curator Nilüfer Şaşmazer and Hera Büyüktaşcıyan the volume examines the relationship between the artist s personal memory and the ruptures inscribed in the city s history through various formal and conceptual tools such as the ghost reverse perspective and the surface tension Aykan Safoğlu s essay In the Scab Form of Time reimagines the artist s past stretching from Kurtuluş to Tarlabaşı and the reflections of this past in her practice in the form of a walking narrative while Anne Barlow s text A Landscape within a Landscape offers a wide ranging reading of the temporal and spatial sensitivities that emerge across Büyüktaşcıyan s international exhibitions Katerina Gregos s essay Unsettled Ground considers the artist s multi layered practice focused on themes of identity and displacement as a poetic archaeology that renders suppressed histories visible Designed by Utku Lomlu the book brings together Murat Germen s photographs of the works with images scanned from the artist s sketchbooks and archival photographs Held in Arter s third floor gallery Phantom Quartet brings together Hera Büyüktaşcıyan s newly produced works for this exhibition along with a selection of earlier works some drawn from the Arter Collection Drawing on the term phantom limb evoking a lingering presence that follows loss and used originally in the medical field Phantom Quartet unfolds in four chapters Necropolis Courtyard Avenue and Gaze which bring the outside into the gallery space This fourfold structure resonates through the elements of fire air water and earth each seeping into the works in different ways Interlacing four distinct temporalities past present future and purgatory the exhibition creates a sensory terrain that summons the ghosts hidden within objects forms surfaces sounds and colours

This book which accompanies Hera Büyüktaşcıyan s solo exhibition Phantom Quartet at Arter approaches the artist s practice whose core engagement revolves around the notions of invisibility cyclicality memory architecture the city and nature in a multi layered way Opening with an in depth conversation between the exhibition s curator Nilüfer Şaşmazer and Hera Büyüktaşcıyan the volume examines the relationship between the artist s personal memory and the ruptures inscribed in the city s history through various formal and conceptual tools such as the ghost reverse perspective and the surface tension Aykan Safoğlu s essay In the Scab Form of Time reimagines the artist s past stretching from Kurtuluş to Tarlabaşı and the reflections of this past in her practice in the form of a walking narrative while Anne Barlow s text A Landscape within a Landscape offers a wide ranging reading of the temporal and spatial sensitivities that emerge across Büyüktaşcıyan s international exhibitions Katerina Gregos s essay Unsettled Ground considers the artist s multi layered practice focused on themes of identity and displacement as a poetic archaeology that renders suppressed histories visible Designed by Utku Lomlu the book brings together Murat Germen s photographs of the works with images scanned from the artist s sketchbooks and archival photographs Held in Arter s third floor gallery Phantom Quartet brings together Hera Büyüktaşcıyan s newly produced works for this exhibition along with a selection of earlier works some drawn from the Arter Collection Drawing on the term phantom limb evoking a lingering presence that follows loss and used originally in the medical field Phantom Quartet unfolds in four chapters Necropolis Courtyard Avenue and Gaze which bring the outside into the gallery space This fourfold structure resonates through the elements of fire air water and earth each seeping into the works in different ways Interlacing four distinct temporalities past present future and purgatory the exhibition creates a sensory terrain that summons the ghosts hidden within objects forms surfaces sounds and colours

This book which accompanies Hera Büyüktaşcıyan s solo exhibition Phantom Quartet at Arter approaches the artist s practice whose core engagement revolves around the notions of invisibility cyclicality memory architecture the city and nature in a multi layered way Opening with an in depth conversation between the exhibition s curator Nilüfer Şaşmazer and Hera Büyüktaşcıyan the volume examines the relationship between the artist s personal memory and the ruptures inscribed in the city s history through various formal and conceptual tools such as the ghost reverse perspective and the surface tension Aykan Safoğlu s essay In the Scab Form of Time reimagines the artist s past stretching from Kurtuluş to Tarlabaşı and the reflections of this past in her practice in the form of a walking narrative while Anne Barlow s text A Landscape within a Landscape offers a wide ranging reading of the temporal and spatial sensitivities that emerge across Büyüktaşcıyan s international exhibitions Katerina Gregos s essay Unsettled Ground considers the artist s multi layered practice focused on themes of identity and displacement as a poetic archaeology that renders suppressed histories visible Designed by Utku Lomlu the book brings together Murat Germen s photographs of the works with images scanned from the artist s sketchbooks and archival photographs Held in Arter s third floor gallery Phantom Quartet brings together Hera Büyüktaşcıyan s newly produced works for this exhibition along with a selection of earlier works some drawn from the Arter Collection Drawing on the term phantom limb evoking a lingering presence that follows loss and used originally in the medical field Phantom Quartet unfolds in four chapters Necropolis Courtyard Avenue and Gaze which bring the outside into the gallery space This fourfold structure resonates through the elements of fire air water and earth each seeping into the works in different ways Interlacing four distinct temporalities past present future and purgatory the exhibition creates a sensory terrain that summons the ghosts hidden within objects forms surfaces sounds and colours