“Ultimately, our real home is our life.”
Etel Adnan
Pera Film presents Our Real Home is Our Life, the online film program within the scope of the exhibition, Impossible Homecoming, that was opened in April at Pera Museum.
The works of Etel Adnan, who was born into a family with many languages, religions and identities, portrays her history migrating through geographies, the weight of this world and the search for the place we call home. Our Real Home is Our Life includes various forms of moving image: videos of conversations with Etel Adnan, documentaries that follows the traces of her work, and essay-films that are inspired by her oeuvre.
The program that will take place between the 6th and 20th of August will show Words in Exile, the documentary which depicts, through visuals fragments, Etel Adnan’s unique portrait shaped by multiplicity of languages, of peoples and their identities; Five Senses for One Death, in which Etel Adnan, together with Gavin Bryars, deals with topics of memory, archeological excavation, and historiography at the intersection of artistic practice and scientific research; I See Infinite Distance Between Any Point and Another, which is one part of the trilogy by Otolith Group’s experimentation on both politics and aesthetics of water, revolving around the movement of thought and of ocean; and lastly, In Conversation with Etel Adnan, an interview with the artist conducted by the Ireland Modern Art Museum’s curator Rachael Thomas on her work and life in 2015.
The program will be streamed at film.peramuzesi.org.tr between August 6 - 20, and only be accessible to online audiences in Turkey. As per legal regulations, all our screenings are restricted to persons over 18 years of age, unless stated otherwise.
The wind blows, rubbing against my legs made of layers of metal and wires, swaying the leaves of grass that have shot up from the cracks in the tarmac, and going off to the windows that look like the eyes of dead children in the wrecked buildings that seem to be everywhere as far as the eye can see.
The exhibition Look at Me! Portraits and Other Fictions from the ”la Caixa” Contemporary Art Collection examines portraiture, one of the oldest artistic genres, through a significant number of works of our times. Through the exhibition we will be sharing about the artists and sections in “Look At Me!”.
Celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, Pera Museum invites artist Benoît Hamet to reinterpret key pieces from its collections, casting a humorous eye over ‘historical’ events, both imagined and factual.
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: 300 TL
Discounted: 150 TL
Groups: 200 TL (minimum 10 people)
