Interruption and Flow

While the artist's ongoing practice of establishing relationships between urban, archaeological and ecological cultures is also evident in this exhibition, her current works add a different dimension to her questioning on memory. Taksim, construction, national identity, memory, waterways, squares and demolition are the main reference points of the exhibition. Is it possible to keep the memory of the place? What about the memory of a city? In Horada's productions, these questions find their answers beyond memory retention, as reproduction and transformation. The works in the exhibition are fed by the short film, The Division Taqsim of Water, completed by the artist in 2020. The work emerges as the artist reflects on Taksim Square, which she experienced during her time at SAHA Studio between August 2019 and February 2020, and re-imagines that the historical Taksim Maksemi, after which the square is named, metaphorically maintains its function of dividing water between neighborhoods. Starting from the difficulty of carrying the past of Taksim Square and imagining its future, the study explores ways of being in touch with the space and thinking together. The work, which enters into a new dialogue with space and time in Versus Art Project, spreads physically to the gallery.

Sibel Horada

04.11.2021 – 11.12.2021