Pera Film continues its annual I’m Here! program, initiated to raise awareness for World AIDS Day, with the video selection Red Reminds Me… curated by the contemporary art organization Visual AIDS.
Red Reminds Me… consists of seven videos created by artists worldwide, reflecting the emotional spectrum of living with HIV today. The program takes its name from the words of Stacy Jennings, an activist and poet who has lived with HIV for many years: “Red reminds me, red reminds me, red reminds me … to be free.” Jennings associates the color red with freedom, subverting its conventional associations and offering a new perspective on the complexities of living with HIV.
Through the red ribbon and other visual symbols, HIV and AIDS have long been linked to red and its connotations of blood, pain, tragedy, and anger. Red Reminds Me… invites spectators to consider the multifaceted imagery and emotions surrounding HIV, including themes of eroticism and intimacy, motherhood and kinship, luck and fate, memory and the unforgettable. The artists in the program employ elements of parody, melodrama, theater, irony, and horror to forge a new narrative language that represents HIV today.
This program’s screenings are free admission. Drop in, no reservations. As per legal regulations, all our screenings are restricted to persons over 18 years of age unless stated otherwise.
December 1
17:00 Dear Kwong Chi
El Club del SIDA
Realms Remix
Ambivalence: On HIV & Luck
HIV Fell in Love with Me
it’s giving
LUCID NIGHTMARE
December 11
17:30 Dear Kwong Chi
El Club del SIDA
Realms Remix
Ambivalence: On HIV & Luck
HIV Fell in Love with Me
it’s giving
LUCID NIGHTMARE
December 1
17:00 Dear Kwong Chi
El Club del SIDA
Realms Remix
Ambivalence: On HIV & Luck
HIV Fell in Love with Me
it’s giving
LUCID NIGHTMARE
December 11
17:30 Dear Kwong Chi
El Club del SIDA
Realms Remix
Ambivalence: On HIV & Luck
HIV Fell in Love with Me
it’s giving
LUCID NIGHTMARE
Our Cold Front from the Balkans exhibition focuses on different generations of artists and art groups from the Balkan region. Throughout the exhibition, we keep sharing detailed information about the artworks. Take a look at Mark Požlep’s “Stranger than Paradise” video installation. Also you can check our interview with the artist on our YouTube channel!
Inspired by its Anatolian Weights and Measures Collection, Pera Museum presents a contemporary video installation titled For All the Time, for All the Sad Stones at the gallery that hosts the Collection. The installation by the artist Nicola Lorini takes its starting point from recent events, in particular the calculation of the hypothetical mass of the Internet and the weight lost by the model of the kilogram and its consequent redefinition, and traces a non-linear voyage through the Collection.
John Frederick Lewis is considered one of the most important British Orientalist artists of the Victorian era. Pera Museum exhibited several of Lewis’ paintings as part of the Lure of the East exhibition in 2008 organized in collaboration with Tate Britain.
Tuesday - Saturday 10:00 - 19:00
Friday 10:00 - 22:00
Sunday 12:00 - 18:00
The museum is closed on Mondays.
On Wednesdays, the students can
visit the museum free of admission.
Full ticket: 200 TL
Discounted: 100 TL
Groups: 150 TL (minimum 10 people)
