"What we need to question is bricks, concrete, glass, our table manners, our utensils, our tools, the way we spend our time, our rhythms. To question that which seems to have ceased forever to astonish us. We live, true, we breathe, true; we walk, we go downstairs, we sit at a table in order to eat, we lie down on a bed in order to sleep. How? Where? When? Why? Describe your street. Describe another. Compare."
- George Perec
Pera Film’s sixth edition of Hors Pistes Istanbul gathered under the title The Artist vs. Life captures the social and intimate narratives and observations through the personal voyages of eight artists: Narimane Mari, Frank Smith, Gurwann Tran Van Gie, Isabelle Prim, Shanti Masud, Marie Losier, Jonathan Caouette, and Cecile Paris. As each artist explores history, reality, and the subliminal under different visual languages and stories, their common denominator presents itself as a matter of standing against the norms, questioning what has been built up or presented so far within the world of the artist. Such becomes a crucial survival, to live and create in order to make sense, to rationalize, to bring order to a world of chaos, disorder, and turmoil. As Andy Warhol once claimed: “They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”
February 26
18:00
Cecile Paris
Selected Videos
March 12
19:00 Honest Experience
March 20
Metamorphoses
March 21
13:00 Metamorphoses
15:00
Cecile Paris
Selected Videos
17:00 Everyday Life
March 22
15:00 The Affaire’s Prompter
March 25
19:00 Alan Vega, Just A Million Dreams
Tarnation
March 26
18:00
Cecile Paris
Selected Videos
19:00 Everyday Life
March 28
14:00 The Film Of Questions
15:30 Honest Experience
17:00 The Affaire’s Prompter
18:00 Alan Vega, Just A Million Dreams
Tarnation
March 12
19:00 Honest Experience
March 20
19:00 Metamorphoses
March 21
13:00 Metamorphoses
15:00
Cecile Paris
Selected Videos
17:00 Everyday Life
March 22
15:00 The Affaire’s Prompter
March 25
19:00 Alan Vega, Just A Million Dreams
Tarnation
March 26
18:00
Cecile Paris
Selected Videos
19:00 Everyday Life
March 28
14:00 The Film Of Questions
15:30 Honest Experience
17:00 The Affaire’s Prompter
18:00 Alan Vega, Just A Million Dreams
Tarnation
April 1
19:00 The Film Of Questions
Program Trailer
We, by which I mean some of my classmates and I, knew about Paula Rego. I’ll have to admit, I didn’t know where Rego was from or even where in Europe Portugal was. I thought she was English. Let me tell you how I first heard the very un-English sounding name “Paula Rego”
I remembered a game as I was waiting in the passenger lounge for the ferry to arrive just a few minutes ago. A game we used to play at home when I was young, in my country that is very far away from here, a relic from the distant past; I don’t even remember how we used to play it. The kind of game that makes me feel a thousand times lonelier than I already am among the crowd waiting to get on the ferry.
Celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, Pera Museum invites artist Benoît Hamet to reinterpret key pieces from its collections, casting a humourous eye over ‘historical’ events, both imagined and factual.
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